1880 



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MEMORIAL SERVICES 



OF 



George G. Meade Post, No. i, 

Department of Pennsylvania, G. A. R., 



AT 



Philadelphia, Pa., 
1880. 



MEMORIAL SERVICES 

OF 

Geo. G. Meade Post, No. i, 

Department of Pennsylvania, G. A. R., 

AT 

Philadelphia, Pa., 
1880. 



[ncluding Services at the Central Congregational Church, Rev. James R. 
Danforth, Pastor, on Sunday Evening, May 23, 1880. 

Decoration Services at Laurel Hill Cemetery, and Lmcoln 
Monument, P\airmount Park, Saturday, May 29, 1880. 

Meade Memorial Services at the Academy of Music, in aid 
of the Meade Monument, on Saturday Evening, May 
29, 1880. 



Compiled from original iiiuiuiscripts by Comrade Jos. R. C. \yard. 



Times PRiNrrNr: Hotj»i!, 

75.1 Chestnut Sfrppt, 

Philadelphia. 



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OFF/CEKS OF THE POST. 

Past Post Commanders. 

CLAYTON McMICHAEL, 

HENRY H. BINGHAM, 

WH.LIAM ARTHUR, 

JOS. R. C. WARD, D.D.S.. 

MYER ASCH, 

JAMES HESLET, 

JAMES R. MULLIKEN, 

GEORGE W. DEVINNY, 

R. W. P. ALLEN, 

L. D. C. TYLER. 

PRESENT OEFICERS. 

Comtnandcr, 
ALFRED J. SELLERS. 

Senior Vice- Cot/unander, 
THOMAS J. ASHTON. 

Junior Vice- Cot/unajider, 
COLIN M. BEALE. 

Adjutant, 
JOS. R. C. WARD, D.D.S. 

Quartermaster, 
CHARLES L. ATLEE. 

Surgeon, 
JAMES COLLINS, M.D. 

Chap/aitt, 
HALSEY J. TIBBALS. 

OlTiccr of the Day, 
CHARLES A. HALE. 

Ojjicer of the Guard, 
EDWIN NELSON. 

Sergeant Major, 
JAMES T. STEWART. 

Quartcnnaster Sergeant, 
LOUIS E. I'FEIFFER. 



COMMITTEES. 

Committee on Divine Service. 
Past-Commander JOS. R. C. WARD, Chairman. 
Past-Commander GEO. W. DEVINNY. 
Quartermaster's Sergeant LOUIS E. PFEIFFER. 

Covunittee on Decoration Day. 
Comrade WM. J. SIMPSON, Chairman. 
Adjutant JOS. R. C. WARD, D.D.S., Secretary. 
Comrade GEO. STEVENSON, Treasurer. 
Comrade GEO. O. WHITE. 
JOS. P. ELLIOT. 
HENRY C. BLAIR. 
Officer of the Day CHAS. A. HALE. 
Quartermaster's Sergeant LOUIS E. PFEIFFER. 
Comrade W. L. ATLEE, M.D. 

Special Committee. 
Junior Vice-Commander COLIN M. BEALE. 
Past-Commander GEO. W. DEVINNY. 
Sergeant-Major J AS. T. STEWART. 
Comrade PHILIP J. HOFFLIGER. 

GEORGE E. PAUL. 

ALBERT SUPER. 

Committee on Meade Memorial. 
Comrade HARRY C. POTTER, Chairman. 

GEO. O. WHITE, Secretary. 

H. S. LANSING. 

L. R. HAMERSLEY. 
Past-Commander HENRY H. BINGHAM. 
Comrade P. D. KEYSER, M.D. 

Committee on Reception. 
Comrade H. S. LANSING, Chairman. 
Comrade HARRY C. POTTER. Comrade GEO. Q. WHITE. 

HENRY H.BINGHAM. " P. D. KEYSER. M.D. 

L R. HAMERSLEY. " R- DALE BENSON. 

THOS. J. ASHTON. " SAML. B. HUEY. 

JAMES STARR. " CHAS. C. KNIGHT. 

BENJ. W. RICHARDS. " W. W. H. DAVIS. 

J WM. HOFMAN. " WM. J. SIMPSON. 

JOS.R.C.WARD.D.D.S. " ALFRED J. SELLERS. 

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SERVICES 



CENTRAL CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, 

N. W. Cor. Eighteenth and (ireen Streets, 
philadelphia. 

Rev. James R. Danforth, 

Pastor. 

Sunday Evening, May 23d, 1880. 



SERVICES AT 

Central Congregational Church, 

N. W. CoK. I 8th and Green Sts. 



Rev. JAMES R. DANFORTH, Pastor, 



The following invitation was received : 

Philadelphia, May 13, 1880. 
DR. JOS. R. C. WARD, Adjutant George G. Meade Post, No. i, G. A. R , 
Department of Pennsylvania : 
The George G. Meade Post No. i are respectfully and cordially 
invited to attend religious services at the Central Congregational 
Church, Cor. i8th and Green Streets, on the eve of Sunday the 23d 
inst., at 8 o'clock. 

The pastor. Rev. James R. Danforth, will deliver a discourse 
appropriate to the occasion. 

On behalf of the Church, 

JOHN EDMUNDS, Clerk. 

Which was accepted by the committee, and the following general 
order was issued : 

Headquarters Geo. G. Meade Post. No. i, 

Department of Pennsylvania, G. A. R. 

S. E. Cor. Eleventh and Chestnut Sts. 

Philadelphia, May 15th, 18S0. 

General Order ] 
No. 6. j 

I. In compliance with General Orders from National Headquar- 
ters, and a Resolution of the Post adopted at its Muster, held on 
Monday Evening, May loth. 1880. the members of this Post will 



attend divine service on Sunday Evening, May 23d, 1880, at the 
Central Congregational Church, Eighteenth and Green Streets, Rev. 
James R. Danforth, pastor. 

II. Comrades will assemble in full G. A. R. uniform at Post Rooms, 
on 23d inst., at 7 o'clock, P. M., sharp. 

Those who are not uniformed, or have objections to wearing uniform 
on this occasion, will wear citizen dark suit, white vest and gloves, and 
badge on left lapel of coat. 

The Commander earnestly urges upon all our comrades to be pres- 
ent, and as many as possible in uniform, for the credit of the Post and 
our Order, as it is but right and our duty that we should at least once a 
year assemble in public worship to Almighty God, who has spared our 
lives, and brought us safely through so many dangers. 
By order of 

A. J. SELLERS, Commander. 
JOS. R. C. WARD, Adjutant. 

In compliance with the above order, members of the Post assem- 
bled at Headquarters, and, notwithstanding the rain, which commenced 
about an hour previous to the time to assemble, and continued all the 
evening, marched to the church, and, entering the chapel, passed into 
the church, and occupied the seats in its centre. After appropriate 
services of worship the pastor, Rev. James R. Danforth, preached 
the following sermon : 



SERMON. 

Soldiers of the George G. Meade Post, No. i. of the Grand Army ol 
the Republic: 
We salute you. We welcome you to our church to-night. We 
respect and approve of the General Orders from National Headquarters, 
under which you are here present, and we acknowledge with pleasure 
our thanks at the resolution of the Post, adopted at its muster, by which 
you selected this church as your place of worship. 

The most gifted art critic of our day, and an unexcelled master of 
expression in English speech, has ventured upon other fields than 
those of art. John Ruskin has treated in discourse and essay upon 
social and political subjects.-always with truthfulness and brilliancy, 
perhaps not with equal certainty and conviction. Being invited to 
deliver an address before "The Royal Military Academy of Wool- 
wich England," he selected the subject of "War." I desire to quote 
from that address the following remarkable words: "The common 
•• notion that peace and the virtues of civil life flourish together. I find 
" to be wholly untenable. Peace and the vices of civil life only flourish 
" together. We talk of peace and learning, and of peace and plenty, 
" an'd of peace and civilization ; but I find that these are not the words 
'• which the muse of History couples together.-that on her lips the words 
"are peace and sensuality, peace and selfishness, peace and corrup- 
'■ tion, peace and death. I find, in brief, that all great nations learned 
"their truth of word and strength of thought in war; that they were 
" nourished in war and wasted by peace ; taught by war and deceived 
" by peace ; trained bv war and betrayed by peace,-in a word, that 
"they were born in war, and expired in peace. Yet note carefully." 
" the lecturer proceeds to caution. " it is not all war of which this can be 
"said, nor all dragons' teeth which soon will start up into men. . . . 
" The creative and foundational war is that in which the natural rest- 
"lessness and love of contest among men are disciplined, by consent, 
" into modes of beautiful-though it may be fatal-play ; in which the 



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"natural ambition and love of power of men are disciplined into the 
"aggressive conquest of surrounding evil, and in which the natural 
"instincts of self-defense are sanctified by the nobleness of the insti- 
" tutions and purity of the households which they are appointed to 
"defend. To such war as this all men are born, in such war as this 
" any man may happily die ; and forth from such war as this have 
" arisen, throughout the extent of past ages, all the highest sanctities 
"and virtues of humanity." — Crown of Wild Olives, pp. 8g, 90. 

Without for a moment consenting to such an unqualified condem- 
nation of peace, and such an imperfectly qualified commendation of 
war, we shall do well to examine what are the "truth of speech " and 
" strength of thought " peculiar to war ; forgetting not, in the mean- 
time, that peace has its victories and its virtues, as well as its defeats and 
vices, while all war does not consist exclusively of chivalry, unselfish 
devotion, sterling loyalty, and faithfulness to death. As the individuals 
who compose the citizenship of the peaceful state are in part the same 
who constitute the soldiery of its armies, their transfer from a peace 
to a war footing does not transform and canonize them into saints. 
Some of their imperfections have been known to follow them even into 
the army, and their canonization has been of a different sort than that 
upon ecclesiastical calendars. 

But after full deduction has been made for the destruction, devasta- 
tion, disasters and death of war, there yet remains in an honest, self- 
defensive war, enough of noble impulses, of disciplined powers, of 
developed courage and manliness, of indomitable purpose and uncon- 
querable will, to repay the nation for all the sacrifice of property and 
the far more precious sacrifice of life expended. War is indeed a 
rough, harsh plow-share, relentlessly turning over the soft green sod, 
burying the bright, soft flowers of peace in rude upheaval, tearing 
asunder the interlaced roots of long associations and established 
institutions, and making of a smiling field and blossoming orchard an 
unsightly stretch of lifeless brown furrows. Yet from soil so agitated 
there waves, in a few months, a noble harvest, and the barns are 
never fuller of the finest of the wheat. 

I need not declare to those men and soldiers whose sympathies 
and services were given to our country in the time of her need, 

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during the late war of the great rebellion, that such noble harvests 
have been reaped, and are still, through coming years, to be gathered. 
A race, the most cruelly enslaved, emancipated ; a nation, the most 
enlightened, and the most treacherously attacked, preserved ; and the 
problem of the government of the people, by the people, and for the 
people, solved and vindicated for the benefit of mankind.-these are 
the comely growths already overshadowing those red fields of carnage 
beneath which our fathers and our brothers lie buried. 

Soldiers of the Grand Army of the Republic, for these worthy 
objects your buried comrades fought and fell ; for these same worthy 
objects yourselves fought, inviting the same fate. They were taken; 

you are left. 

From no shallow desire to parade yourselves, from no mere motive 
to preserve your organization, (such are the whispers of base minds.) 
but from an honest and sincere desire to celebrate the triumph, to per- 
petuate the cause, and to keep in tender remembrance the cosi, you 
observe the annual day of decoration. You take our flowers, grown 
in peace, and place them upon comrades' graves, sown in war. The 
tribute is' tender, appropriate, and obligatory. I speak advisedly when 
using these terms. I repeat, obligatory. Though it was asserted of 
petty Grecian republics, heathen republics, "they are ungrateful." I 
would not have the statement apply to the great American Republic in 
this nineteenth century of Christianity. A Christian republic should 
not be ungrateful. It should avoid the appearance of ingratitude and 
of forgetfulness. The graves of our soldiers will not always be deco- 
rated." As years increase the distance between the horrors of war and 
the delights of peace, those who fell in relieving the land of the former 
and of "securing it in the enjoyment of the latter, will exist only as a 
numerical expression upon the pages of history. Posterity will read 
that so many fell at Gettysburg, and so many in the Wilderness, as 
we now read that another number bit the dust at Naseby and at 
Waterloo. But that generation in which great deeds have been per- 
formed in the preservation of the nation's life would prove ungrateful 
indeed, and merit severe blame, if its defenders and martyrs could be 
forgotten. I will not believe the statement, made by some, that Deco- 
ration Day is losing its place in the hearts of our people. Possibly 



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some features of its observance may have lost their novelty, and some 
addresses of its orators strike the hearer's ear with the familiarity of 
a many-times-told tale. But be it remembered, that, however drilled 
our minds may have become in the facts, principles, events, issues, 
and consequences of the war, each year presents a teeming host of 
young minds who listen to the story for the first time. Their ears 
tingle and their hearts beat with honest pride and ardent patriotism 
at the recital of what the dead have done, and for what they died. 
Decoration Day furnishes to hundred thousands invaluable lessons of 
home history. It is a school for patriotism and kindred virtues. The 
nation would be vastly poorer and society meaner without it. 

When the affairs of l)usincss arc permitted in nmvc on tlicir 
monotonous pace through the wlinle weary year, unljrokcn Ijv any dav 
of national festivity or of grateful rcnu-nihrance, then we shall be a 
nation of shop-keepers indeed, witli courage to wield a yard-stick 
but not a sword, to face men in bargains but not in battles. If cour- 
age and sacrifice are at so mean a premium, if virtue and manhood 
are at so low a price, that those who fought and died for us arc for- 
gotten, then the conclusion is irresistible that the virtues in them 
which we have forgotten are passing out of ourselves. For bravery 
recognizes a brave deed the world over whenever done, and will not 
let it die. Patriotism cherishes the name and fame of patriots, em- 
balming them in proud and tender remembrance. I feel assured that 
this generation will not — cannot — forget and neglect the living and 
the dead through whose sufferings and sacrifices our nation's flag is 
untorn and her name is unsullied. 

No brother or son shall visit the neglected grave of father or 
brother with the heavy thought: "My father went forth to the field 
of battle; my brother armed himself for battle; amid its horrid din 
and blinding smoke he fell a willing sacrifice for a country that 
has forgotten him and a generation that neglects him ! " No i)oor 
widow, upon whose weak hands has been thrown the whole respon- 
sibility of the family's support since the husband and fither was 
shot at Gettysburg, shall ha\e tliis sickening weight thrown upon 
her heavy burdens: "Why did I consent to his going forth? When 
the question was asked me, why did I not plead and weep and pray 

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against it? Why did I not bring the little boy and the vvcc babe, 
and place them in the door-way to bar his passage out ? Why did I 
restrain my tears in his presence— but crying in agony when by 
myself? Why did I preserve a ci\\m, cheerful face ? Why with such 
outward composure bid him farewell and Godspeed at the call of 
'country,— if the country that called him so soon forgets his reply 
and my sacrifice, forgets his death and my grief?" 

While those survive among us whose brothers and sons, whose 
fathers and husbands, met duty and kept faith through death, this 
generation must not simply appreciate their work and treasure their 
memory in the quiet of home and the recess of the heart, but it 
must be publicly and conclusively shown that they are not forgotten, 
that they are the brave men and true whom tlie people and the 
nation delights still to honor. Their gift of the nation's integrity 
vindicated, of the nation's life preserved, a gift extended from their 
dying hands, may not be dismissed with an easy bow and a mere 
"Thank you." This generation is under an honorable and life-long 
obligation publicly and worthily to remember and honor the heroes 
who" fought and died for it. 1 should blush for my countrymen, 1 
should feel disgraced by myself, if, in the very day of their doing, 
the deeds and the deaths could sink into oblivion. 

Those realizing most the momentous issues at stake, and appre- 
ciating at their full value the imminent perils of the issues, those 
who s'Lcrificed everything valuable for the cause of country, are not 
the ones who would have the day forgotten or unobserved. 

There remains another reason to be mentioned, to my mind the 
most important, why we should continue and encourage the observ- 
• ance of just such a celebration as Decoration Day. Not merely that 
those who have made the sacrifices and uho survive may justly 
expect it of us, not chiefly because we wish to perpetuate the names 
and deeds of slain men,— though this is a sacred duty,— but because 
we wish to honor and crown with flowers living virtues. The men 
arc gone whose graves are strewn with flowers. Wc do not expect 
to revive them, and wc arc not aware that tlicy take any dcl;ght in 
what is going on. The survivors cannot long survive. In the ordi- 
nary course of nature a few years will remove them utterly ; but the 



qualities which they exhibited, the virtues they possessed, must remain 
and be cultivated, if life is to be worth the living, and the nation is 
to be worth the having. The virtues essential to good soldiership 
are absolutely necessary for the stability of society and the perma- 
nence of a nation. Courage, devotion and sacrifice are the triplet 
of virtues which we honor and would immortalize in the memory of 
those who wore them through hard and perilous service even unto 
death. Could you select one grave from among the many, and 
prove to the conviction of all beyond shadow of doubt or possibility 
of charitable denial, that this man enlisted merely for money, his soul 
was never stirred with one poor patriotic motive ; he sought only his 
own gain, was always bold as a lion when the enemy was distant, 
and suddenly grew meek as a lamb upon their approach ; he was a 
thorough coward, mean and low in all his aims and acts ; a man given 
over to selfishness, who would as readily have enlisted upon the 
Rebel as the National side, had it served his mercenary purpose as 
well, — I declare that if you were to know of such a man, and if the 
public were to be fully persuaded in your conviction, then, even upon 
that day of universal good feeling and indulgent charity, neither your 
hand nor mine nor any one's would be stretched forth to plant a 
flag or to place a flower upon the green mound. For though the 
man had, as it were by a selfish accident, not by noble incident in 
a generous plan, fallen on the field or dropped in the camp, he was 
never a soldier. His body may have worn the familiar and honored 
blue, but there was no "true blue" about his soul. That grave would 
remain justly unhonored because it represented no virtue worthy our 
respect. Indeed, we should best respect ourselves and commend true 
soldiership by cultivated neglect. 

Courage is more essential to the soldier than his musket. Devo- 
tion is more honorable than epaulettes, and sacrifice is more com- 
mendable than victory. Some one of these three virtues, or all three 
in some combination, every true soldier possessed who enlisted or was 
drafted into our army. Possibly they were in the minds of few in 
pure form. Mixed motives doubtless influenced the vast majority; 
but as grains of gold in the hard quartz or shining in loose gravel, 
these bright qualities shone out now and then in all. Very few who 

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served their country honorably but came through the ordeal of field 
and camp, health being unbroken, without being stronger men in 
courage, in devotion, and in sacrifice. They would dare to undertake 
more, they would concentrate powers with intenser purpose, they 
would endure and dare more to secure success, because of their rough 

schooling in war. 

Do not understand me to imply that only those possessed of cour- 
age, devotion and sacrifice to a pre-eminent degree should receive our 
praise. All who felt them in the slightest degree and followed their 
lead, though but a few faltering footsteps, should receive the reward 
and esteem of the one who is faithful in the little. 

Those unnamed and unsung soldiers who were given over to indis- 
criminate and undistinguishable burial because death had reaped such 
a harvest and the survivors were so few ; those whom we knew to 
have been quite ordinary men at home, yet who became heroes at the 
call of the country; those who, though at first enlisting because of the 
small wages, yet afterward felt the martial flame burn within, and were 
engaged, heart and soul, in the success of the good cause and the 
triumph of the only true flag,-those shall have their meed of com- 
mendation ; for in them these qualities of courage, devotion and sacri- 
fice were kindled and glowed or shot forth in kind, strong deed, in 
patient endurance, and in service to the death. We can demand no 
stronger proof of sincerity and devotion than the consistent life and 

the death. 

We have often thanked God that the war is over, that the wounds 
and devastations are healing and repairing, and that once more we are 
beginning to move on through that stately course marked out by Provi- 
dence for a great and free people. That particular war of the rebellion 
has passed. Never in our generation, or during the next, or the many 
generations to follow, do I believe that the appeal will again be made 
to the stern arbitrament of arms. But war itself is not over in our land. 
It exists to-day in other forms, and will not cease to exist. War is 
waged every day right in our city streets,— not by the rude process of 
barricade and artillery. War is waging this hour in the heart of well- 
nigh every man. The man is to be pitied who is not at war, and who 
does not feel himself a warrior. We think as little of such men now, as 

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we did in the war-days of sneaking copperhead and cowardly home- 
guard. If there is no wrong in society which duty does not call upon 
us to attack ; if there is no right whose voice we do not heed to defend ; 
if there is no wrong in ourselves that we are resolved to assault, and 
conquer, and expel ; if there is no right in ourselves which we are 
resolved at all hazards and at any cost to fortify and secure in complete 
possession, — then we lack some one of the three essential virtues of 
courage, devotion, or sacrifice. Which ? It would not be pleasant to 
have one's courage impugned, for that implies the despicable charge 
of cowardice. It would seem to me that even a coward would be able 
to "spunk up" for a short minute under this charge. Nor would one 
welcome the questioning of his devotion, that is, his lack of appre- 
ciating anything as of sufficient value to induce him to concentrate 
what manhood is within him for securing it ; that is, of devoting him- 
self to it. Scattered powers of mind and heart can win no victory, 
any more than can the scattered forces of an army. We care but little 
less to have our devotion or earnestness doubted, than to have our 
courage cjuestioned. How is it, then, with sacrifice ? We surely would 
regard it as no compliment were it said of us "he knows what is right, 
he has the courage to undertake it, and could concentrate his powers 
and win success, but he is unwilling to make the sacrifice. Though he 
has the means, he is unwilling to pay the price for the best, but con- 
tents himself with an inferior article. His ring might be of gold, he 
contents himself with brass. Had he wished and worked he might 
have been strong as rock ; he is weak as water. His armor might have 
been proof against all weapons, and himself the successful champion 
upon the field of life. But though he had the price, he would not 
pay it. Present ease he would not resign for future good. He slept 
in his tent when he should have been active in the field. He deserted 
his post because it was hard when that post was the step to advance- 
ment and honor, to a useful life and an honored end." 

We may never have thought of it, but it is none the less true that 
the one who fought the very hardest battle on this earth, and who 
inaugurated and commands the longest campaign, has never been 
classed among soldiers. He has been called "The Great Captain of 
our Salvation," and those following his command have been urged to 



be good soldiers and to endure hardness. Usually, however, the God- 
man Christ Jesus is thought and spoken of as the Prince of Peace. All 
meek, loving and gentle attributes have been ascribed peculiarly to him. 
He has been taught as exemplif)ing particularly the so-called passive 
virtues— such as patience, meekness, forbearance, self-restraint and 
the like. Possibly in our emphasis of these passive and milder virtues, 
which Jesus Christ undoubtedly possessed pre-eminently, we have not 
given sufficient heed to the strong and vigorous, the courage, devotion 
and sacrifice, the daring, the manliness of Jesus Christ. He is not 
merely the model man for pious people at church, but the model man 
for brave men in the field. He is not merely the leader of women and 
children, of feeble-minded and weak-kneed men, but the commander 
of fearless, lion-hearted, iron-willed men. The Dove indeed rests upon 
him, and he is spoken of as the Lamb ; Ijut he is also the Lion of the 
tribe of Judah. He is Christ the prophet ; but also Christ the king. 

You may think of him as one who " gave his cheek to the smiter " 
and bade his disciples turn the left cheek to the one who had just 
smitten the right, not because less courage was required to be struck 
twice than to strike back, but many fold more courage. 

Single-handed and alone he confronted the powers of a whole 
nation. Single-handed and alone he fearlessly, faithfully, and to the 
death, testified to the truth ; knowing his hour of darkness before it 
came, and having counted the whole bitter cost, unflinchingly he went 
on to the end. Through his power ot sublime self-command he van- 
quished his conquerors and achieved the victory. 

"Behold," declared this Christ, called the Prince of Peace,— 
"behold I come not to send peace on the earth, but a sword." That 
sword of the Son of God is extended to every man. Its hilt is offered 
your hand. It may be taken, and soldierly work done in the world. 
The point and edge are turned against the false, the debasing, the 
sinful. What can hurt men,— defacing God's image within them,— 
blotting out the handwriting of a nobler manhood and of a higher 
destiny, is the enemy of this sword. Against individual, social, politi- 
cal, against all wrong, this sword of the Son of God is an enemy. A 
man must often turn it against himself to strike at the evil within. Its 
gleaming stroke, like the lightning's flash, leaves the air purer ; and he 

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who wars with it has the true Excalibar that cuts through the hard 
and the soft, the thick and the thin, with unbroken point and unturned 
edge, clearing its course to triumphant issue. He that is slow to anger 
is better than the mighty, and he that ruleth his spirit than he that 
taketh a city. The armies of invisible moral forces are always mar- 
shaled in battle array. Peace is impossible between them. A truce can- 
not last an hour. The good, the generous, the manly, the noble, the 
godly, must wage destructive war upon the mean, ignoble, unworthy, 
or be itself destroyed. Our wars between nations, when opposing 
armies number hundred thousands, are but petty picket-firing com- 
pared with the grandeur and momentous issues of the moral battle. 
Not in distant Belgium, but here, at the Waterloo of each man's soul, 
is to be discovered "battle's magnificently stern array." On Belgium's 
field the "Man of Destiny" and "The Iron Duke" met, fought, and 
the fate of Europe was determined for two generations. On this moral 
field we all are soldiers ; and each, by his fighting, will determine his 
destiny for the many generations. 

Courage, devotion, sacrifice, under the command of tlie Great Cap- 
tain, will win the victory always,— a victory that the revolutions of states, 
the changing opinions of generations, and the decay of time, cannot 
touch or destroy, but which, gathering strength with age. and weight 
with motion, shall roll on its resistless, enlarging course. Grand is 
that battle as the movement of the spheres. They move not through 
their orbits with as sublime a march as do the hosts of God wheel into 
line at the divine command. Each true soldier of that army has cour- 
age, devotion, sacrifice. We want to enlist more with just these quali- 
ties, that the world may be made better, and heaven be brought nearer. 
And so I bid the soldiers " God-speed" who decorate the graves of 
our brave men ; and so I urge the people to respond generously, and 
to sympathize sincerely in the honorable tribute which we pay to this 
triplet of living virtues. Long may our land be blessed with men who 
can do brave deeds and die grandly when duty calls ! And may that 
hour be so long in coming that it shall never, never reach our land 
when we can forget these deeds and neglect our heroes ! 

To you, gentlemen, members of the George G. Meade Post of the 
Grand Army of the Republic, is entrusted a peculiarly tender and sacred 



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duty. You have in charge the grave of that firm, brave commander, 
who, under God, turned back the highest wave of the rebellion, caus- 
ing iis angry, threatening crest to fall destructively southward instead 
of northward. His name will not perish soon from the grateful nation. 
But it is your privilege to demonstrate that that name is not forgotten, 
and it is the people's duty to co-operate with you in the demonstration. 
But, gentlemen, on the r^ute of your march to the green mounds you 
decorate, you always pause before a bronze statue representing a great 
man at a great moment of his great life. That life was great because 
of its courage, that flinched not at any danger. That life was great 
because of its devotion, that would not be diverted from the business, 
high and holy, that it had in hand. That life was great because of the 

sacrifice, not by which it closed, but by which it lived and worked for 

the unity of the nation and the common good. 

As you crown that head and strew those mounds with perishable 

flowers, you e.xalt for our esteem and imitation those living virtues 

which have made their names imperishable, and which may make us 

immortal. 

Permit me to close with the sentiment— that your burdens may 

never grow lighter of flowers on each successive Day of Decoration, 

and that the virtues which the flowers set forth may lighten every other 

burden. 



The services closed with our national hymn," My country, 'tis of 
thee," led by the choir. 

The members of the Post were mdividually introduced by the 
Adjutant to the pastor, who shook each Comrade by the hand, and 
expressed his pleasure in meeting them. The Post was then dismissed. 



The Committee subsequently submitted the following report to 
the Post, which was accepted, and the Committee was discharged with 
the thanks of the Post : 



Philadelphia, Jutie 7/h, /8S0. 
Comrade JOS. R. C. WARD, Adjutant Geo. G. Meade Post, No. i. 
Department of Pennsylvania, G. A. R. 

Comrade : — Your Committee on Divine Service respectfully sub- 
mit the following report : That, having received a special invitation to 
attend divine service at the Central Congregational Church at Eigh- 
teenth and Green Streets, where the Pastor would preach a sermon 
appropriate to the occasion, your Conimittee accepted the invitation, 
and so informed the Commander, who issued General Order No. 6, 
notifying the Comrades, and directing them to assemble at the Post 
Room, for that purpose, on Sunday evening, May 23d, 1880, at 7 P. M. 

The line was formed, and left the Post Room at 7.30 P. M., and 
proceeded up Eleventh Street to Ridge Avenue, to Green Street, to 
Eighteenth, to the church, where the Comrades occupied seats together 
in the body of the church. 

Rev. James R. Danforth, pastor, preached an eloquent and appro- 
priate sermon, and the choir sang hymns suitable to the occasion, clos- 
ing with the National Hymn, " My country, 'tis of thee ; " at the close 
of the services the Post was dismissed, and the members were indi- 
vidually introduced to the pastor. 

Owing to the rain-storm which commenced about an hour previous 
to the time to assemble, and continued all the evening, but few Com- 
rades were present, as follows : Commander Sellers, Senior Vice-Corn 
mander Ashton, Adjutant Ward, Quartermaster Atlee, Chaplain Tibbals, 
Off-Guard Nelson, Past Post Commander Tyler, Comrades W. L. Atlee, 
Bond, Brooks, Blair, E. N. Benson, Brown, Cook, J. M. Evans, Frazer. 
Howser, Hoffliger, W. H. Howard, Haeseler, Johnston, Kent, Krider, 
McKnight, L. W. Moore, J. E. Mann, Paul, I. C. Price, Reed, Simpson, 
Strobel, W. R. Smith, Super, Simmons, E. Stokes, Svvoyer, J. T. Stewart, 
W. W. Wallace, Wood, Wray, and R. J. Young. Total, 41. And 
Comrade W. K. Rudolph, Post 35. 

Respectfully submitted in F., C. and L., 

JOS. R. C. WARD, 

LOUIS E. PFEIFFER. y Committee. 

GEORGE W. DEVINNY. 



DECORATION SERVICES 

AT 

LAUREL HILL CEMETERIES 

AN'O 

LINCOLN MONUMENT, FAIRMOUNT PARK, 

Saturday, May 29th, 1880. 



DECORATION SERVICES 

AT 

Laurel Hill Cemeteries 

A.\'l) 

Lincoln Monument, Fairmount Park, 

Saturday, May 29th, 1880. 

The Committee having made .all the necessary arrangements, the 
following General Order was published : 

Headquarters Geo. G. Meade Post, No. i, 

Department of Pennsylvania, G. A. R. 

S. E. Cor. Eleventh and Chestnut Sts. 

Philadelphia, May iSth, 1880. 
General Orders ) 
No. 7- i 

I. In compliance with the Rules and Regulations and General 
Orders No. 8, Department Headquarters, of 8th inst., this Post is 
detailed for Decoration duty at the North, South and Middle Laurel 
Hill Cemeteries, on Memorial Day, Saturday, May 29th, 1880. 

II. In conformity thereto, the Post will assemble at Headquarters 
on the day aforesaid, at 9.30 A. M., fully equipped in the G. A. R. 
uniform— dark blue suit (or dark pants), white vest and gloves, black 
necktie, G. A. R. badge and metallic buttons, blue cap, staff pattern ; 
and should any Comrades report after the line is formed they will be 
assigned to the left flank, as the formation will not be changed. 

III. The command will parade as a Battalion of three companies, 
in sections, front of eight, officered by Senior Vice-Commander Thos. 
J. Ashton in command of first company, Officer of the Guard Edwin 
Nelson second company. Junior Vice-Commander Colin M. Beale third 

company. 

IV. The following Comrades will report for assignment to duty : 
Comrades Chas. C. Knight, R. Dale Benson, John W. Ward, Jr., D. P. 

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Weaver, James C. Wray and Officer of Day Chas. A. Hale, to the 
Commander for Staff duty. They will be obeyed and respected accord- 
ingly. Comrade Henry Keen will report as Post Bugler. 

V. Carriages will not be permitted in the column except by consent 
of the Committee of Arrangements, and then only in extreme cases. 

VI. The line of march will be from Headquarters down Eleventh 
to Walnut, to Thirteenth, to Locust, to Broad, to Chestnut, stopping at 
St. George Hotel, where our guests will be received and assigned a 
position in line ; thence down Chestnut, passing in review before the 
Mayor and Councils of Philadelphia in front of State House (officers 
only saluting), to Fifth, to Market, to Eighth, to Willow, thence by cars 
to Fairmount Avenue entrance to Park, proceeding to Laurel Hill by a 
special boat ; returning same way to the Lincoln Monument in Park, 
where brief exercises will be held j resuming the line of march by way 
of Green Street to Broad, to Chestnut, to Headquarters, and there 
dismiss, which will be not later than 4 o'clock. 

VII. At the National Memorial Service at the Academy of Music, 
in the evening, the command will report for duty, fully equipped, at 
7.45 o'clock, prompt, in the Green Room, entrance by the door on right 
corridor. This duty will be of but short duration, when the Comrades 
can return to their scats in the auditorium. 

VIII. The Commander, relying upon the fidelity of our Comrades 
to the noble behests of duty by parading upon this occasion to do 
honor to our distinguished guests, and to a faithful observance of our 
annual labor of love, as we scatter earth's fairest emblems upon the 
mounds which mark the bivouac of our Comrades, warrant him in the 
assurance that it will be the most complete fulfillment of our duty 
heretofore performed. 

By order of 

A. J. SELLERS, Commander. 
JOS. R. C. WARD, Adjutant. 

In compliance with the above order, members of the Post assem- 
bled at Headquarters and took up the line of march as stated in the 
order, stopping at St. George Hotel to receive our invited guests, 
among whom were General W. T. Sherman, Judge William N Ashman, 
and Comrade Silas W. Pettit, orators; Comrade H. Clay Trumbull, 

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chaplain; General E. M. Poe, of General Sherman's staff; and Gen- 
erals Stewart L. Woodford and Thomas Kilby Smith. 

The cars of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad were taken at 
Eighth and Willow Streets to Fairmount Park, thence by steamer 
Lafayette to Laurel Hill. Upon disembarking, the line was formed, 
and marched through the cemetery to the chapel in North Laurel Hill. 
The choristers of St. Mark's P. E. Church, in charge of Professor 
F. W. Mills, organist and choir-master, sang the following Proces- 
sional Hymn, accompanied by the band : 

With fond hearts full of grief and love, O Memory ! Lend us now thine aid 

Our oflering we bring ; While we their deeds recall 

And thus to all our honor prove Who willing ready answer made, 

For those whose acts we sing. And went to fight or fall. 

They nobly fought the land to save ;— 

To avenge a cruel wrong ; 
The true, the honored, tried and brave ! 

Be theirs the victor's song. 

This was very impressive, as with slow, solemn, solid step the 
veterans wound their way through that beautiful city of the dead. 

Arriving at the Chapel, the invited guests were seated in the enclos- 
ure, and the Post formed around the stand, where the following services 
were held : 

Dirge, by Ringgold Band of Reading, Pa. 

The Chaplain of the Post. Comrade Halsey J. Tibbals, offered 
up the following prayer : 

Almighty God, our heavenly Father, we draw near unto thee, 
in the name of our Saviour and Mediator, Jesus Christ, humbly and 
earnestly imploring that thy richest blessings may rest upon our 
beloved land and these people assembled here. O God, thou doest 
according to thy will in heaven and among men ; our hearts would 
go out unto thee in this solemn hour in gratitude and adoration that it 
hath pleased thee to raise up this great nation, and that thou hast 
spared it through many and sore trials, until now its future promises 
glorious victories in the interest of liberty and humanity, so that the 
coming years shall unfold to the world the glory of thy loving-kind- 
ness and tender mercies. Blessed Saviour, we humbly bow before 
thee this day with hearts Inirdcned with grief as we mourn the loss of 
our fallen comrades. Bless now, we beseech thee, these offices of lov- 



ing tenderness that we so gladly perform ; grant that as we scatter these 
beautiful garlands of roses upon the last resting-place of our noble 
dead, that we may resolve anew to keep sacred in our hearts the memo- 
ries of those who yielded up their lives that their country might live. 
May their willing sacrifice not have been in vain. Most merciful and 
ever-blessed Son of God, look in mercy, we entreat thee, upon the 
bereaved ones; grant unto them that joy and consolation that thou 
alone canst give. Bless all those who to-day are suffering from disease 
or wounds; be thou their support and strength in every time of need. 
Impress upon our hearts, O God, the solemn lesson of this hour; may 
each one of us so improve its teachings that when we shall be called 
from our earthly march we may gain an abundant entrance into heaven. 
We ask it all in our Redeemer's name. Amen. 



Hon. William N. Ashman, Judge .of the Orphans' Court, 
delivered the following oration, which was listened to with rapt 
attention : 

The ceremonies of to-day are not intended as an empty pageant. 
You are not here, either as actors or spectators, in a drama whose high- 
est object is to awaken a temporary spirit of enthusiasm. These men, 
these banners, this music, are all parts of a terrible story of real life. 
Men see in the array with which their eyes have been this day glad- 
dened, beautiful in its symmetry and imposing in its numbers, the 
mechanism whose theatre of action was the battle-field, and under 
whose powerful blows disunion and treason went down together. So 
we have looked upon the ship lying at her moorings in the quiet waters 
of the harbor. It was not the tall masts, nor the graceful spars, nor 
the sweeping lines of the hull, indicative at once of strength and 
beauty, though these were all present, which compelled our admira- 
tion ; it was the thought that out in the darkness of night and the fury 
of tempest that ship had parted the billows, and brought her freight of 
life and riches safely to the desired haven. 

The reflection which to my mind ennobles this occasion is that the 
actors in it are a part of history. It is literally true that you have made 
history. Who thiit has read past annals has not longed at times to lift 

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the curtain and catch a ghmpse of the warriors who followed the for- 
tunes of C;-esar? Who that has visited the Hotel des Invalidcs, at 
Paris, has not looked with a sort of awe upon the two or three surviv- 
ing soldiers of Napoleon? We forget the humbleness of their. rank; 
we do not learn even their names; but we remember that they and 
such as they were actors in the strange drama whose central figure 
was that wonderful man. I scarcely realize, because these faces are 
familiar ones, that there are around me men, my own countrymen 
and friends, who served with a nobler })urpose in a grander cause. 1 
scarcely appreciate the fact, only because it is a fact of to-day, that in 
the vastness of its territory, in the size of its armies, in the destructive- 
ness of its appliances, above all, in the momentousness of its interests, 
the conflict from which you have emerged eclipsed the campaigns of 
Caesar and Napoleon, almost as completely as the living soldier of 
the tent and field eclipses the painted imitation of the stage. Take 
away from the characters of those two men the element of a most 
ignoble and absorbing selfishness, and find for me, if you can, the 
motive or the motives which were strong enough otherwise to incite 
their possessors to the deeds whose performance gave them their places 
in history. The world may compare, if it chooses, the work which )0u 
have done in rebuilding a government, with the gift by Napoleon of 
thrones which he had stolen, only that they might be retaken by their 
owners, and you need not blush for the result of the contrast. 

Another thought hallows this ceremony. It is that you have not 
forgotten the comrades who shared your toils, but who did not live to 
share your triumphs. The sharp grief which waited upon their depart- 
ure has been assuaged, and has been followed by a better and pro- 
founder feeling. You have learned to think of them as with the old 
familiar features, yet as swayed by subtler sympathies and developing 
larger activities. It is well for you each year to muster here, and to 
repeat, if only in memory, the old roll-call. Let mc tell you that your 
dead companions have achieved a work which many a poet and many 
a statesman and many a philosopher has attempted in vain. It is 
their glory that their lives were finished lives. Men may cavil as they 
will about the measure of the duty which they owe to their fellows or 
to the state; of no man can more be asked than that he shall give up 

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his life in behalf of others. Yet that was the sacrifice which these 
heroes, over the dust of some of whom we stand, cheerfully rendered. 
It is something in proof of the nobility of our common humanity, nay, 
it is the best omen for the future of America, that, in an age of money- 
getting and of political- debasement, men could be found willing to 
lay home and life as gifts upon the altar of duty. Here or else- 
where their offerings shall be accepted and rewarded. Heroes like 
these need no sculptor's skill, no poet's song, no painter's pencil, to 
commemorate their virtues, for the history of their lives is written deep 
in the hearts of men. Parents will tell the story of their grand 
achievements to listening children, centuries after the names of the 
noisiest statesmen shall have been forgotten. You may be poor, and 
unknown and unbefriended, but to have labored and suffered in a 
cause with them is not to have lived in vain. 

But this gathering has another and deeper significance. You have 
not turned away from the tide of active life and sought this city of the 
silent only to revivify old memories ; let us hope rather that you have 
also come to gather an inspiration which shall make your own mem- 
ories precious. Let this day of commemoration be with you as well a 
day of high resolve. Determine this hour that the virtues which made 
you triumphant in the field shall be the virtues which will distinguish 
you in civil life. Obedience, self-devotion, truth, — these are the sov- 
ereign ciualities of the soldier, as, alas! too often they are not of the 
citizen. Never before was there greater need of the exercise of these 
attributes in t)->e public and private affairs of our people than there is 
to day. The student of Gibbon's matchless history must sometinics 
imagine that he is reading in anticipation the future chronicle of our 
own republic. We seem to have reached just that point at which the 
Roman empire showed its first symptoms of decay. We are not lack- 
ing in material wealth nor in social culture, nor in the principles of a 
wise and equitable jurisprudence. We profess to be swayed by the 
benignant precepts of a pure religion. Yet all the force of our civiliza- 
tion and of our Christianity was insufficient to avert the shame of civil 
war. You saved us from the destruction which it menaced ; but it is 
a solemn truth which ought not to be forgotten, that if the patriotism of 
our legislature had equaled the patriotism of our armies, the rebellion 

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would never have happened. I speak of no section and of no party 
when I say that I, for one, do not beheve in a statesmanship which 
rectifies its errors by the blood of thousands of its citizens. What sane 
man will have the hardihood to maintain that if obedience to established 
law, if self-de\otion which made no pauses in its sacrifice, if truth which 
scorned the chicanery of politics, had animated the statesmen of the 
North and the statesmen of the South, you would be now standing 
around the buried victims of an unnatural conflict? In God's name, 
do not let the errors of the past be repeated in the future. Command 
of your rulers what the people commanded of you, — obedience, self- 
devotion, truthfulness. Do not allow the hucksters of politics to ply 
their miserable trade in the halls of legislation. Remember that the 
office of senator or representative is too large to be filled by a small 
man. See to it that none but a pure man sits in the chair which was 
once filled by Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln. You and I have 
embarked our common fortunes and our common hopes in the grand 
old ship of state to which our fathers trusted, and which has borne us 
so long and so well. Do not this day permit that ship to be manned 
by land sharks and officered by pirates. Don't let these men hoist the 
black flag of sectionalism where once floated the flag of the Union. 
Thank God there is in the nation enough of the wisdom which is born 
of honesty, to save that craft from shipwreck. The heart of our people 
beats now, as it always did, true to the right. And it calls on you, as it 
does to no others, to be true to your soldierly instincts. Go forth from 
this sacred place resolved that with the blessing of divine Providence 
you will banish fraud and corruption from our high places. It is not 
true that the blood which was poured out on fields like Gettysburg was 
shed in vain. Out of the smoke of battle 1 see some traces of the 
blue sky which harbingers the coming of a better day. 

" When wealth no more shall rest in mounded heaps, 
But, smit with freer light shall slowly melt 
In many streams to fatten lower lands, 
And light shall spread, and man be liker man 
Through all the seasons of the golden year." 

Let me ask in conclusion, Is there a man, in all your number, who 
would plead his weakness or his obscurity as a bar to the performance 
of this duty ? I will answer the cavil by a single illustration. Travelers 

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tell us that down in the Southern seas vast coral reefs are slowly rising 
from beneath the waves. A few cycles of years shall pass, and those 
reefs will become a continent, upon which soil will form and trees will 
grow. By and by the hand of civilization will be attracted to the spot, 
and perhaps the cities of a new nationality will be founded on sites now 
covered by the sea. When the historian comes to write the history of 
that p;ople ; when he tells of the wealth of its commerce, of the 
wonders of its arts, of its glorious achievements by land and sea, — he 
will not do full justice to his theme if he fails to tell that this triumph of 
man was l)uilt upon the labors of an insect. And so when some future 
historian shall write the story of America ; when he shall tell how from 
the chaos of intestine strife her institutions rose in newer and prouder 
proportions ; when down the path of the ages he shall assign to her 
the leadership of the nations,— he will f^iil of his highest purpose if he 
shall omit to tell that the artificers of this new creation were the men 
who, in an age of political skepticism carried the honor of the soldier 
into the councils of civil life, and elevated the soul of the nation whose 
fortunes they had saved. 

The Choristers sang the following Anthem, dedicated to the Grand 
Army of the Republic by Colonel C. 11. Clarke. 

Bles-t be the ground where our brave.s are at rest, 
Honored each slirine where onr martyrs icpose. 
On through the ages to come sliall be blest 
Those who defended our land from its foes : 
Guarded our land from its traitorous foes. 
Comrades, advance from the Kast and the West, 
Scatter fresli garlands where martyrs repose, 
Plant the old flag where our braves are at rest ! 

Bless thou our nation, thou God of the free, 
Vouchsafe that liberty our fathers gave; 
Guard thou our country from sea unto sea, 
Soil which our lieroes long struggled to save. 
Land of our sires and redeemed by the brave. 
Comrades, this trust keep for millions to be. 
Ages to come will remember each grave, 
Cost of our nation so dear, yet so free. 



Commander A. J. Sellers delivered the following address : 

Comrades and Friends: We are now about to decorate with 
flowers, and honor with fitting ceremonies, the graves of comrades 
who are buried here, who served with us in defense of our country 
during its terrible trial. We meet for no empty show or useless parade, 
but to testify from full and overflowing hearts that the remembrance 
of their sacrifices has not grown dim with passing years. 

Standing by their resting-places with bowed heads, we can recall 
^he unselfish devotion of the men who fell that liberty might live, and 
that the Government, bequeathed as a heritage by our patriot fathers, 
might not perish from the earth. 

We are not here to glory in the victories of the past, nor to stir up 
the hot blood by the recital of our comrade's valor. We have buried 
the animosities and hate engendered by the war ; and we desire rather 
to forget all, save the good in the past, whilst we renew our inflexible 
purpose to maintain the Government, saved by the devotion of our 
comrades. 

Here is the fitting place to call to mind the men who with us stood 
guard over the nation; to think of the charge some comrade died 
repelling, some terrible leaden shower that smote him by our side, 
some prison pen, where, dying, he still prayed for God's fair land ; 
and to show that the love of Union and liberty was not laid aside when 
the battle-flags were furled, and the sword laid by to rest. 

As, then, we scatter earth's fairest emblems, life's fitting symbol, 
upon our comrades' graves, as stalwart men, and gentle women and 
little children bedeck the soldiers' graves with flowers, and bedew 
them with tears, the world shall know that the humblest of our slain 
comrades has a crown of remembrance brighter and more enduring 
than the diadem of kings. 

We linger over these green hillocks, every one of which speaks 
of a nation's life and a nation's glory. W^c are thrilled with a holy 
patriotism when we contemplate the sacrifices of those who died for 
freedom's holy cause. 

The woven garland of the " Roll of Honor," which hangs so grace- 
fully upon the neck of the Republic in her rejuvenated grandeur, the 
joy of future generations, the inspiration of hope and shelter for the 

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oppressed of all climes, reiterates the meed of praise " honor to whom 
honor is due," far beyond our songs, our services in scattered blossoms 
or in uttered praises. They lived — they died martyrs to the cause of 
liberty, union, and national life ; they took the chalice, and, without 
fear, pressed it to their lips ; they took the bitter draught though next, 
their noble forms pressed mother earth, moistened with the heart's best 
blood. Scatter then these fragrant flowers, the gift of tlie widow, the 
mother, the sister, the brother, the friend, the loving, and the loved, 
and let us do it as the simple and visible sign of a soldier's affection, 
and as the expression of the reverence and gratitude of a liberty-loving 
people, as reverently we stand beside the graves of the defenders of the 
Republic. Comrades, with a soldier's heart, a soldier's impulses, I 
speak, we have stood firm thus far, let us in the name of all we hold 
dear to national honor, the rights of freemen, gratitude to the dead, 
justice to the living, " keep step " to the music of our watchwords 
" Fraternity, Charity and Loyalty." 

The Post was then sent in details to North, Middle, and South 
Laurel Hill cemeteries, and decorated with flowers the graves of all 
soldiers and sailors, planting on each grave a neatly arranged bouquet 
of flowers, a staff containing a small national flag on which was printed 
" Meade Po^t No. i, 1880," — suspended on staff above flag was a wreath 
of laurel twelve inches in diameter ; that no final resting-place of any 
of our deceased Comrades should be neglected, carefully prepared 
maps of the different sections of each cemetery were furnished each 
detail, and the following notice printed on the programme: 

" Relatives and friends of any deceased Soldier or Sailor, who may 
be buried in either of these cemcter.es, are earnestly requested to assist 
the Comrades in this their labor of love by pointing out the graves, 
lliat none may be neglected." 

As soon as the labor of love was completed, the Post reassembled 
at the call of the bugle at the Chapel, and marched to the grave of 
General George G. Meade, where the following programme was carried 
out : 

Muiic by the Ixmd. 



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Address of the Chairman of the Committee, Comrade William J. 
Simpson : 

Comrades and Friends: — Cherishing- tenderly tlie memory of 
our heroic dead, who made their breasts a barricade between our 
country and its foes, we have met here to-day to pay a loving tribute 
to their memory. Their soldier lives were the reveille of freedom to a 
race in chains, and their death the tattoo of rebellion's tyranny in 
arms. We should guard their graves with sacred vigilance. All that 
the consecrated wealth of the nation can add to their adornment and 
security is but a fitting tribute to the memory of her slain defenders. 
Let no wanton foot tread rudely on such hallowed grounds. Let pleas- 
ant paths invite the going and coming of reverent visitors and fond 
mourners. Let no vandalism of avarice or neglect, no ravages of time, 
testify to the present or coming generations that we have forgotten as 
a people the cost of a free and undivided republic. 

Let us then, at the time appointed, gather around their sacred 
remains and garland the passionless mounds above them with the 
choicest of flowers of springtime ; let us raise above them the dear old 
flag they saved from dishonor ; let us in this solemn presence renew 
our pledges to aid and assist those whom they have left among us, a 
sacred charge upon the nation's gratitude,— the soldiers' and sailors' 
widows and orphans. 

If other eyes grow dull, and other hands slack, and other hearts 
cold in the solemn trust, ours shall keep it warm as long as the light 
and warmth of life remain to us. 

I have the pleasure to introduce Rev. H. Clay Trumbull, Past 
Post Chaplain, who will lead us in prayer. 

Comrade Trumbull advanced to the side of General Meade's 
grave, and offered the following prayer; 

Our Father, as we stand together here in thy presence, amid the 
graves of those who died for us, we give thee thanks for the memory of 
those whom we now bear lovingly in mind; and we ask that thou, by 
the Spirit, wilt impress upon our hearts the lessons which thou \vouldst 
have us to learn from these graves, from this day, from this gathering, 
and from the sacred services conducted here in th\- name. 

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Make us mindful of our privileges in this land of civil liberty and of 
gospel light; and of all their cost to us, and to those who went before 
us, or who were with us in the days of the nation's life struggle. 

We thank thee, O God, for the memory of him at whose grave we 
stand together now, in renewal of our pledge of fidelity to the principles 
in behalf of which he and we were first called into holy companionship 
and mutual burden-bearing and duty-doing. We rejoice in the recol- 
lection of the honored part he was privileged to bear in thy gracious 
purposes for the preservation of our country in its peril ; and of the 
success which thou didst give to him in the discharge of his responsi- 
bilities as a soldier and as a commander. We ask that we may profit 
by the example of all that was noble and courageous and unselfish and 
patriotic in his character and conduct ; and that we may love and serve 
our country with all the devotion manifested by him in the hour of 
our country's need. 

May thy special blessing rest on those who were peculiarly near 
and dear to him ; and who peculiarly miss and mourn him now. May 
they have that peace in their hearts which thou dost give to those who 
are dear to thy Son our Lord — that peace which the world can neither 
give nor take away. And so may thy blessing be on the loved ones of 
all those whom we mourn together here. 

Bless our loved country. Bless all who are in and of it. Bless 
those who have authority and those who are under authority in this 
land. Bless us as a people, and grant that a desire to serve and 
honor thee may prevail above every other desire in the hearts of all 
who are citizens or dwellers in the domain of our blood-bought nation- 
ality. 

And may we, and all those for whom we pray, live continually as 
those who seek a better country, that is an heavenly, through following 
in the steps and trusting in the merits of Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen. 

Comrade Simpson introduced General W. T. Sherman, gen- 
eral of the army of the United States, who addressed those present 
as follows : 



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Comrades and Friends : — Assembled as we are to-day, in this 
most beautiful of all ceremonies, decorating the graves of fallen com- 
rades with fresh flowers, tokens of undying love, and standing by the 
grave of General George Gordon Meade, my individual thoughts natu- 
rally revert to that period of his life, " when wild war's deadly blast 
was blown, and gentle peace retiring," he came to live in your midst, 
a citizen and a commissioner of your beautiful park, of which this 
cemetery forms a part. Many a time he drove me about this park, 
and up the lovely Wissahickon ; and I am sure that, had he chosen 
the place for his eternal rest, it would have been at this very spot, over- 
looking the Schuylkill, and near those he loved so well. He now sleeps 
well, and loving hearts come annually to pay tribute to his memory. 
He was a glorious soldier, a gallant gentleman, a loving father, a faith- 
ful friend, and a patriotic citizen. His grave is a fitting shrine for us 
all, old and young, to come to annually, not to add to his fame and 
glory, but to dedicate anew what is left to us of life to the service of 
our common country. 

Trained as a soldier, his temperament was too active for the duties 
of a subaltern ; and he was engaged the greater part of his life in 
engineering, and in surveying our coast from Florida to the Great Lakes 
of the North, with which his name will long be associated. But the 
moment the country was aroused by the first shot of the civil war, he 
sprang to arms, knowing that war, and war alone, could determine such 
a controversy. Beginning with a regiment he soon had a brigade, a 
division ; and at the very crisis of the war he was a corps commander, 
and on the eve of one of the greatest battles of the world, was ordered 
to command in chief the vast Army of the Potomac, then in motion to 
defend the State of Pennsylvania against an army, ably commanded, 
and moved by the powerful impulse of success. With the battle of 
Gettysburg Meade's name and fame will ever be associated ; and his 
victory on that field alone entitles his name to be enrolled in the list of 
the great generals of the world. But here on this lovely spot, in this 
bright sunshine, we naturally turn from the hero to contemplate the 
virtues of the man. General Meade was essentially a man of a social 
nature, kind, generous and manly, doing that which he was appointed 
to do thoroughly and well, and ever returning to his family and circle 

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of friends to share the simpler and finer joys of hfe. Though he was 
comparatively young, and his death sudden and unexpected, yet he had 
accomplished all that man should expect on this earth, and bequeathed 
to his family a rich legacy in public fame, in private virtue, and in the 
abundance of affection by friends and neighbors. 

As, year after year, crowds gather round this sacred spot, they will 
be reminded that although the frail tenement which encloses a life is 
mortal, that human virtue, that courage, and ability to do life's work 
firmly and well, are more enduring than marble or bronze. We now 
lay our floral tribute upon the grave of our friend and comrade, George 
Gordon Meade, and leave to your honored fraternity the completion of 
the beautiful ceremony of the day. 

General Sherman then placed upon General Meade's grave a large 
and beautiful floral design presented to him on his way to the cemetery 
by a pretty little three-year-old girl, who was lifted up to the carriage 
window that she miglit see the great soldier. The General took her in 
his arms and kissed her for her tribute. 

The grave of General Meade was then appropriately decorated by 
the following impressive service : 

Comrade J. William Hofmax, taking a wreath of beautiful flowers 
placed it upon the grave, saying : 

In memory of the honored and heroic dead, whose remains here 
find shelter and repose, I deposit these flowers, thinking not of the 
creed or color, politics, nationality or rank of the comrade sleeping 
below, knowing only he was a patriot who bravely served where duty 
called. May the lesson of purity which these flowers symbolize rest 
in our hearts, and incite in us feelings of patriotism which our comrade 
showed in life and exemplified in death. 

Junior Vice-Commander Colin M. Beale, taking a bouquet of 
flowers, and placing it upon the grave, said : 

In honor of our comrades slain in Freedom's battle, yielding up 
their lives in prison pens, dying in hospitals from wounds or disease, 
who now sleep in graves far away and unknown, I place these flowers 

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upon this grave. These beautiful flowers will fade, this green mound 
will be leveled with the plain, but the historic streams by which our 
comrades fought will be dry, and the battle mountains wlicre they l)led 
will be washed to the sea, ere the story of their valor dies out, or the 
result of their heroism ceases to affect mankind. 

Senior Vice-Commander Thomas J. Ashton, taking a wreath of 
laurel, placed it upon the grave, and said : 

Death comes to all of us ; none shall evade its relentless mandate. 
The highest potentate and the humblest toiler must at lasf take their 
places in the bosom of the earth, and it becomes us all to be ready for 
the messenger whose summons we must obey. 

Our comrades, whose graves are scattered all over the land, 
wherever our armies marched or fought — who calmly sleep beneath the 
waters until the seas give up their dead, or in the quiet hamlet where 
the sound of the battle-call was never heard — died in the performance 
of the noblest of duties, the defense of their country, and the upholding 
of its starry banner. 

As the grass will spring anew from the storms of the winter, as 
other flowers will come forth to take the place of these so soon to fade, 
so be it ours, for ourselves and our generations, to keep bright, with 
each succeeding year, the memories of our fallen comrades. 

Chaplain Halsey J. Tibbals advanced with a large, beautiful 
bouquet of white flowers, and said : 

Out of his infinite mercy, the Father, without whose knowledge not 
even a sparrow falls to the ground, has been pleased to remove from us 
our comrades. May the example of their actions and the lesson of their 
sacrifice remain with us, and constantly teach us that next to the duty 
we owe to the Giver of every good and perfect gift, unselfish patriotism 
and manly devotion to the country which shields and protects us, are 
the highest attributes and surest signs of that true nobility which raises 
men to be a litile lower than the angels, and binds upon the brow the 
ineffaceable mark of the hero. May wisdom from on high shine into 
the hearts of our rulers, and so direct all their acdons that the voice of 
the people may honor them, as to-day it honors the lowly beds of the 

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country's defenders; and from this silent city of the dead may we 
carry to our homes, and prove by our actions, the determination to be 
true to the charges left upon the nation's gratitude, " to care for him 
who has borne the battle," and for the widow and orphan of him who 
has fallen. In remembrance, then, of the holy cause for which our 
comrades gave the full measure of their devotion, I now place these 
white flowers upon this grave. 

The following anthem was sung by the Choristers : 

Farewell! Thy earthly toil is o'er ! Farewell, dear comrades ! Now we part ; 

Sorrow and trial thine no more : Tranquil may thy memory be : 

Rest till the last trump calls the blest .Sweet the repose within the grave. 

To blissful peace ' Peace, peace to thee ! 

Fare thee well ! Farewell : Fare thee well ! Farewell ! 

Bugle-call Rest was sounded by Post Bugler Henry Keen. 
The line was re-formed, and the Post marched back to the boat, 
the Choristers, accompanied by the band, singing the following Reces- 
sional : 

Saviour, again to thy dear name we raise, 
With one accord, our parting hymn of praise. 
We stand to bless thee ere our worship cease, 
Tlien, lowly kneeling, wait thy word of peace. 

Grant us thy peace, Lord, through the coming night. 
Turn thou for us its darkness into light. 
From harm and danger keep thy children free, 
For dark and light are both alike to thee. 

Grant us thy peace throughout our eartlily life. 
Our balm in sorrow, and our stay in strife ; 
Then, wlien thy voice shall bid our conflict cease. 
Call us, O Lord, to thine eternal peace. 

Arriving at the boat landing, the steamer Lafayette was again 
taken, and steamed slowly down the river, while the members par- 
took of a lunch prepared by tlie Committee. 



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SERVICES AT LINCOEN MONUMENT. 

At Fairmount Park, the Post disembarked and marched to Lincoln 
Monument, forming in a hollow square around it. The following ser- 
vices were then carried out : 

A dirge by the band. 

Comrade Simpson then introduced Comrade Sii.as W. Pettit, who 
delivered the following address : 

Comrades: It is a fitting conclusion to our labor of love to-day, 
that, having strewn the sweet flowers of remembrance over the graves 
of our fallen comrades, and honored the last resting-place of our own 
heroic Meade, we should halt now to pay our tribute of respect to him 
who was greatest of them all, the Commander-in-chief of the Army 
and Navy of the Ignited States. Abraham Lincoln — he in whom gentle- 
ness and strength were so mingled and combined that, when he fell, all 
the world knew we had lost a perfect man. 

1 know not in what words to speak of him ; I can think of no 
panegyric to fittingly describe him. I believe that the highest because 
the truest eulogy that may be said of him is simply to say who he was 
and what he did. 

He was a man of the people ; comparatively an obscure man, born 
and bred in a new country, and living out of the great highways of the 
world. A man of reflection rather than of study ; a man who had 
thought more than he had read, and who had studied men rather than 
books. 

Such a man he was, and this he did : — 

He stepped from the obscure desk of a country lawyer into the 
blaze of light that surrounds the chair of the ruler of a great people; 
he laid down the petty briefs of his clients, to become the law-maker 
of a nation, the commander-in-chief over a million soldiers, the chief 
executive of a mighty empire. 

He so led a people unused to war, and altogether unprepared for it, 
that they raised and equipped a vast navy, and yet greater armies, that 
in four years they subdued the greatest rebellion the world had ever 

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seen, and conquered a territory greater than had ever been conquered 
since the days of authentic history. 

He so filled the measure of his country's need, that his name will 
be ever treasured while and where Freedom lives, and his memory out- 
last the bronze of this monument in which we vainly seek to per- 
petuate it. 

And now, as we stand here to-day in the shadow of his presence, 
and look back twenty years ago when first we knew of him as one pos- 
sibly to be called to rule over us ; when we remember how little we 
knew of him then, with what doubt and fear of the future we saw him 
assume the ol^ligations of his high office and take the reins of govern- 
ment ; when we remember what he was then, and look down the past 
and see how wisely he led us through dark days and disasters, until at 
last the^ictory was achieved, — we believe, nay, we know, that, like 
David of old, Abraham Lincoln was called of God to be the ruler over 
his nation, and that it was because his work was done, his high mission 
finished, tiiat it was permitted he should die and have rest. 

And we who stand here to-day, comrades of the Grand Army and 
friends, have a duty to fulfill that his life and services, his work and 
martyrdom, impress upon us. 

Abraham Lincoln lived and served and died that that constitutional 
liberty which was founded in the blood of our fathers, and has been 
consecrated anew in the blood of those comrades whose graves we have 
this day honored, should be perpetuated; that this government of the 
people, by the people and for the people, according to the forms pre- 
scribed I)y the constitution and laws, should not perish, but be forever 
m lintaincd intact and inviolate as we have inherited it. 

Human institutions constantly change with time ; the dangers of 
the present are not the dangers of the past; but we, soldiers of the 
Grand Army, owe it to our fathers from whom we received it, our 
comrades who died for it, and to our own sacred oaths to our Order, 
that each of us, each for himself according to his own light and oppor- 
tunity, and to the utmost of his power and influence, shall see to it that 
this government of a free people according to the institutions and laws 
freely adopted shall forever be maintained united and inviolate against 
all foes, foreign and domestic, sectional or factional. 

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The anthem Farewell was sung by the Choristers : 
Bugle-call Rest was again sounded by Post Bugler Keen. 
The Post marched to (ireen Street, to Sixteenth, to Fairniount 
Avenue, and countermarched to Green, paying a tribute of a marching 
salute to Comrade Robert H. Ford, of the Post, confined to his house 
with paralysis. It tlien returned to Headquarters via Green, Broad 
and Chestnut Streets. 



The following is the report of the Adjutant of Parade of the Post 
on Memorial Day, submitted to the Commander : 

Philadelphia, June 7. iSSo. 
Comrade A. J. SELLERS, 

Commander of Geo. G. Meade Post, No. i. 

Department of Pennsylvania, G. A. R. 
Comrade : — 

I have the honor to sul)mit the following report of the parade 
of this Post on Memorial Day, Saturday, May 29, 1880: Pursuant 
to General Orders No. 7 and 8 from these Headquarters, the Comrades 
assembled at the Post rooms, in full Grand Army uniform, on Saturday, 
May 29, 1880, at 9 A.M.; the line was formed at 9.45 A.M., in three 
companies; Senior Vice-Commander Thomas J. Ashton commanding 
the first company, assisted by Comrades C. E. Beale and W. Russell 
Smith ; Officer of the Guard Edwin Nelson commanding the second 
company, assisted by Comrades P. H. Jacobus and John D. Kise ; and 
Junior Vice-Commander Colin M. Beale commanding the third com- 
pany, assisted by Comrades John A. Stevenson and John T. Durang. 
Comrades David P. Weaver, John W. Ward, Jr , and Jas. C. Wray 
were detailed to assist the Commander, Comrade Henry Keen as Post 
bugler, and Comrade Jacol) K. Swoyer to carry I'ost flag. 

Left Headquarters at 10 o'clock, and proceeded down Eleventh to 
Walnut, to Thirteenth, to Locust, to Broad, to Chestnut, stopping at 
St. George's Hotel to receive our guests, among whom were Hon. Wm. 
N. Ashman, Gen. W. T. Sherman, and Comrade Silas W. Pettit, 
orators; Comrade H. Clay Trumbull, chaplain; and Generals E. M. Poe, 
Stewart L. Woodford and Thomas Kilby Smith, guests; continuing 
down Chestnut to Fifth, to Market, to Eighth, to Willow, where we took 
the cars of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad to Fairmount Park. 

The formation of the line being as follows: 

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Detachment of Reserve Officers, Lieutenant Grout commanding ; 

Committee on Decoration Day; Comrade Wm. J. Simpson, Chairman; 

Ringgold Band, of Reading, Pa. (26 pieces) ; 

Post Flag, Post Bugler ; 

Commander and Adjutant; 

Officers of the Post and Past Post-Commanders; 

Post, 

Marching in sections of eights, divided into three companies, officered 

as above stated, the centre company carrying the colors of the late 

Twenty-eighth, Fifty-sixth, and Ninety-fifth Regiments 

Pennsylvania Volunteers, 

Brigade Headquarters flags of the 

First Brigade, First Division, First Corps; 

Third Brigade, Third Division, Fifth Corps; and 

Third Brigade, Second Division, Fifth Corps; 

And the regimental guidons of the Fifty-sixth Regiment 

Pennsylvania Volunteers. 

Following the Post was a large express-wagon, drawn by four large 

gray. horses (kindly loaned by the Philadelphia and Reading Express 

Company), containing a large monument of natural flowers, surmounted 

by a large eagle of immortelles, the base and column of the monument 

made up of two hundred and fifty bouquets,— the whole being about 

eleven feet high. 

Then followed carriages containing orators, invited guests, report- 
ers, and Comrades of the Post unable to march. 

Arriving at Fairmount Park, left the cars, and marched to the 
steamboat landing, and embarked on the steamer Lafayette, chartered 
especially for use of the Post, and proceeded to Laurel Hill; a number 
of the Comrades met us on the boat, together with the Choristers of the 
St. Mark's P. E. Church. Arriving at Laurel Hill the line was re-formed, 
and marched through the cemeteries to the chapel in North Laurel Hill, 
the choristers, led by Professor F. W. Mills, organist and choir-master, 
singing a processional hymn, accompanied by the band. After the 
services at the chapel, as per programme, the Post marched off m 
details and decorated all the graves of deceased soldiers and sailors of 
the \Nar, buried in North, Middle, and South Laurel Hill cemeteries, 

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returning to General Meade's grave, where the concluding services were 
held; after which returned to the boat, the Choristers singing a reces- 
sional hymn. As the boat steamed slowly down the river, the members 
of the Post and guests partook of a lunch prepared by the committee. 

Arriving at Fairmount Park the line was re-formed and marched to 
Lincoln Monument, forming a hollow square around it; the services, 
as arranged, were held; then marched through the Park to Green 
Street, to Sixteenth, to Fairmount Avenue, countermarching to Green 
Street, paying the tribute of a marching salute to Comrade Robert H. 
Ford, of this Post, confined to his room with paralysis ; thence to Broad 
Street, to Chestnut, passing through the Public Buildings, to Eleventh, 
to Headciuarters, and dismissed to re-assemble at the Academy of 
Music at 7.45 P.M. 

The following Comrades participating : 

Commander A. J. Sellers, 

Senior Vice-Commander Thomas J. Asliton, 

Junior Vice-Commander Colin M. Beale, 

Adjutant Jos. R. C. Ward, Quartermaster Charles L. Atlee, 

Chaplain Halscy J. Tibljals, Officer of the Day Charles A. Hale, 

Officer of the Guard Edwin Nelson, Sergeant-Major James T. Stewart, 

Quartermaster-Sergeant L. E. Pfeifier. 

Past Post-Commanders George W. Devinny, R. W. P. Allen and 
L. D. C. Tyler. 

Comrades Atkinson, S. W. Arbuckle, Appel. Allman, W. L. Atlcc, 

C. E. Beale, Bond, Blair, Colbourn, Cook, W. G. Cooper, Colton, 
Dunsford, Dobleman, J. E. Davis, Durang, Dally, Edwards, Frazier, 
Folger, Goodwin, Glading, Hcwes, Hutchinson, Howscr, Hoffliger, 

D. W. Howard, W. H. Howard, Hamberg, Hough, Haury, Haeseler, 
James, Jacobus, Kise, H. Keen, Krider, C. W. Keen, Leidig, Munder, 
Macfcrran, Moran, Mc Knight, Marquet, L. W. Moore, Mitchell, J. E 
Mann, Pettit, Paul, Prior, Perkins, Pauley, Rorer, Reed, Runkle. 
Simpson, Strobel, Sweisfort, W. R. Smith, Super, J. Scott, Shuriz, 
Simmons, J. A. Stevenson, R. Stewart, E. Stokes, Swoyer, Shantz, 
G. Stevenson, J. F. Stokes. Trumbull, \'odges, W. H. H. Wallace, 
Wheeler, White, W. W. Wallace, Weaver, J. W. Ward, Whitaker, 
Wolfe, Wilson, Wray, R. J. Young and Yoder. Total, 97. 



Met the Post en route uiul at cemetery, not unifonned : 

Comrades E. N. Iknsoii, P. H. liarncs, H. A. B. l)rf)\vn, F. C. 
Benson, J. P. KUiot, S. 15. lluey, J. William Hofman, H. Levi and J. A. 
Laws. Total, g. 

On duly receiving guests : 

Comrades H. L. Lansing, chairman; 11. H. l>ingham, K. Dale 
Benson, P. D. Keyser, C. C. Knight, 15. W. Richards, and James Starr. 
Total, 7. 

Making a total number of one hundred and thirteen (113) par- 
ticipating with the Post during the day. 

Post re-assembled at the Academy of Music at 7.45 P.M., and 
escorted orators and invited guests to the stage ; was then dismissed. 
Respectfully submitted in F., C. and L., 

JOS. R. C. WARD, 

Adjutant. 



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MEADE MEMORIAL SERVICES 

AT 11 IK 

Academy of Music, 

IN AID OF THE MEADE MONUMENT, 

UN 

Saturday Evening, May 29th, 1880. 



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These services were held for the purpose of assisting in raising 
funds for the erection of an equestrian statue of bronze at Fairmount 
Parl<, to the memory of iMajor-Cleneral George Gordon Meade. 

It was first the intention of this Post to erect a monument over 
the grave of General Meade at Laurel Hill Cemetery, and a com- 
mittee was appointed for that purpose ; but, ascertaining that objec- 
tions were made to placing a monument in the lot in which General 
Meade was buried, it was decided to co-operate with the Fairmount 
Park Art Association (which had already subscribed ^(5,000, and 
through an Auxiliary Commilttee of a h\indred and twenty ladies 
raised $7,000 additional, and secured the passage through Congress 
of a bill appropriating thirty (30) condemned cannon from which to 
cast the statuej, and, in addition, ask the aid of other Posts of the 
Grand Army of the Republic ; accordingly, at the following semi-annual 
Department Encampment, a committee was appointed to bring the 
matter properly before the other Posts. This resulted in realizing only 
about $2,500 additional, including $600 contributed by this Post ; and, 
to further increase that amount, the following services were projected, 
and invitations sent to the President and Cabinet, Senators and Rep- 
resentatives, Governors of States, Oificers of the Army and Navy, 
and prominent officers of the late war, many of whom accepted and 
attended, letters of regret being received from others. (Copies of 
letters printed as Appendix.) 

General and ex-Governor Joshua L. Chamberlain, of Maine, 
was selected as the orator; Governor Henry M. Hoyt, of Pennsyl- 
vania, as president ; and fifty of the prominent citizens of Philadelphia 
as vice-presidents, as follows : 



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President, 
GOV. and COMRADE HENRY M. HOYT. 



Col. Thomas A. Scott, 

Col. A. K. McClure, 

Hon. Geo. H. Boker, 

W. V. McKean, 

Joel J. Baily, 

Chas. J. Field, 

John Welsh, 

Col. A. Loudon Snowden, 

Col. Jos. F. Tobias, 

Samuel C. Hucy, 

Chas. Spencer, 

Wni. M. Cramp, 

Gen. Robert 15. Bcath, 

Col. O. C. Bosbyshcll, 

Philip Hcrst, 

Maj.Chas. K. Mc. 

Gen. Henry H. l>inj;ham, 

A.J. Dre.xel, 

Col. C. McMichael, 

Hon. W. N. Ashman, 

C. J. Hoffman, 

J. B. Lippincott, 

Ferd. J. Dreer, 

John Baird, 

Thompson Westcott, 

Henry Lewis, 

Lemuel Coffin, 

Col. Chill \V. Hazzard, 

Hon. Chas. Gibbons, 



Vice-Presidents, 
Gen. Robert Patterson, 
Wm. Sellers, 
C. J. Harrah, 
Horace C. Disston. 
Henry 1>. Ziegler, 
• Bu.shrod W.James, M.D. 
Col. Chas. H. Banes, 
Albert C, Roberts, 
F. A. Hoyt, 
John C. Bullitt, 
James L. Claghorn, 
Gen. W. W. H. Davis, 
Col. Chapman Biddle, 
S. A. Caldwell, 
Jos. Patterson, 
P'dwin M. Lewis, 
Edwin H. Fitler, 
Conrad F. Clothier, 
Thos. Hockley, 
James C. Hand, 
\. Nebinger, M.D., 
Strickland Kneass. 
Chas. J. Cohen, 
Sparta Fritz, 
Col. Chas. NL r,etl>, 
Thos. Dolan, 
(justavus S. IScnson, 
Col. John W. Forney, 
N. Berkenstock, 



Edwin N. Benson, 

Rufus E. Shapley, 

Hon. Chas. O'Neill, 

Gen. J. F. Hartranft. 

John O. James, 

Chas, Santee, 

John C. Yeager, 

John C. File, 

Casper Heft, 

Mahlon K. Smith, 

H. S. Frank, 

Gustavus Remak, 

Geo. DeB. Keim, 

E. A. Rollins, 

J. B. Kingslcy, 

Wm. Elliott, 

Gen. J. Wm. Hofman, 

Gen. T. Kilbey Smith, 

Hon. Jas. K. Ludlow, 

Hon. Daniel M. Fo.\, 

Col. Robt. P. Dcchert, 

Col. M. Richards Muckle, 

T, Morris Perot, 

Com. P. Crosby, U. S. N. 

John Wanamaker, 

Samuel B. Fales, 

Thos, Clyde, 

Gen. Chas. P. Herring, 

James Long. 



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GEO. G. MEADE, 

M.ijor-General U.S.A., Army 

i>f the Potomac, died Nov. 

6, 1872. 

I). G. FARRAGUT, 

Ailmiral U. S. N., died Aug. 
14, 1870. 

GEO. H. THOMAS, 

Majur-General U.S. A., Army 
of the Cumberland, died 
March 28, 1870. 

GEO. A. CUSTER, 

.Major-General U. S. V., died 
June 9, 1876. 

JOSEPH HOOKER, 

Major-General U.S.A., Army 
of the Potomac, died Oct. 

:,i, 1879. 
S. P. HEINTZELMAN, 

Pi[ajor-(_;eneral U.S. A., Army 
of the Potomac, died May i, 



On the Field of Honor. 

PHH.IP KEARNEY, 

Major-General U.S.V., Sept. 
I, 1862, Chantilly, Va. 

J. L. RENO, 

Major-General U. S. V., -;d 
Army Corps, Sept. 14,1862, 
South Mountain, Md. 

JOHN F. REYNOLDS. 

Major-General U. S. V., ist 
Corps, Gettysburg, Pa., 
July I, iS6j. 

JOHN SEDGWICK, 
Major-General U. S. V., 6ih 
Corps, Spott.^ylvania, Va . 
May 8, 1864. 

J. B. Mcpherson, 

Major-General U.S. v.. Army 
of the Tennessee, Atlanta, 
Ga., July 22 



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MEADE MEMORIAL SERVICES 

AT THE 

Academy of Music, 
In Aid of the Meade Monument, 

ON 

SATURDAY EVENING, MAY 29th, 1880. 

The officers of the meeting, orators and speakers, and invited guests, 
assembled in the Green Room. The members of the Post, in full uniform, 
formed on the stage, which was set in a wood scene, with camp in rear, 
tents pitched, muskets stacked, drums, knapsacks and other parapher- 
nalia of soldiers' life scattered loosely around, while at the front of the 
stage seats were arranged for officers, speakers and guests. Above the 
centre of the stage was suspended a large oil painting of General Meade, 
life-size, kindly loaned by the Union League, of Philadelphia, bearing 
the simple inscription, " Gettysburg." 

At quarter past eight, the Ringgold Band, of Reading, Pa., struck 
up the grand march ; the Post presented arms as the guests, headed by 
Hon. Henry M. Hoyt, Governor of Pennsylvania, who had been selec- 
ted as the presiding officer, escorted by Comrade William J. Simpson, 
chairman of the Committee of Arrangements, followed by President 
Hayes, Secretary of War Ramsey, Attorney-General Devens, 
Generals Sherman. Hancock, Auger, Poe, Rucker, Macomb, other 
Cabinet officers. Members of Congress, Judges of the Courts, city 
officials, the Vice-Presidents of the meeting selected from the promi- 
nent business men and citizens of Philadeljihia, and a number of promi- 
nent officers of the late war, entered at the upper end, and passed down 
to the front and took seats assigned them, the audience rising, wav- 
ing their handkerchiefs, and loudly applauding, as the familiar faces 
appeared. The Post was then dismissed, and took seats in the audi- 
torium with their families and friends. 

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Comrade Simpson then introduced Governor Hoyt as follows : 
Ladies and Gentlemen, Comrades and Friends : — As Chair- 
man of the Committee of Arrangements, it becomes my pleasing duty 
to introduce to you, as presiding- officer of this meeting, Governor Hoyt, 
of our own Commonwealth. 

As soon as the applause had subsided, Governor Hoyt said : 

I will. only pause to thank you for the honor and pleasure of being 
called to preside over these exercises. The ceremonies of the day have 
prepared you for what is to follow this evening. 

The great catastrophe which underlies the whole occasion is so 
recent and was so widespread as to need no reminder. No household 
was so humble and poor as not to have made contributions, — often even 
of its first-born ; no abode was so rich and splendid as to have escaped 
its legacy of sorrow and woe ; and so to-night the most distinguished 
citizens of the land have come to join the people in this memorial ser- 
vice. Gratitude and homage to those who died for us flow as naturally 
from the sympathies and humanities of our fellow-citizens fitly repre- 
sented in this large gathering of comely men and women, as incense 
and fragrance ex'hale from the May flowers which to-day have been 
strewn upon the graves of our murdered l^rothers. 

And now, ladies and gentlemen, the programme before us is a 
lengthy one, and will douljtless prove an interesting one, and it will be 
better to j)rocecd at once to carry it out. 

Rev. H. Clav Tkumri'll, Past Post Chaplain, then offered the 
following prayer : 

Almighty God, our heavenly P'ather— our Father and the God of 
our fathers — we lift our hearts to thee in thankfulness for all that is 
precious to us in memory, in possession, and in hope, at this hour. 

We rejoice in what we have, by thy grace, in our favored land, 
with its history, its privileges, and its glorious possibilities. We rejoice 
that thou didst, in thy providence, gather out of other lands liberty- 
loving and God-fearing men and women and bring them across the 
ocean to these shores, here to lay the foundations of a government of 
the people, by the people, for the people — a government for the main- 

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tenance and defense of civil and religious liberty. We rejoice that 
when that government was imperiled thou didst arouse and inspire 
and strengthen its citizens for its preservation ; tliat thou didst make so 
many of them ready to die that that government might continue to live. 
We praise thee that, in consecpience of this inspiration from thee, and 
by thy gracious blessing, we have to day a united country, under one 
flag, and with a common destiny, and that there ojjens before us in the 
way of thy commandments the path of the just, — which, for nations as 
for individuals, shineth more and more unto the perfect day. 

And in this holy hour, our Father in heaven, as we arc gathered 
here in thy presence to freshen our memories of those who fell from 
our sides, or who were taken from above us — comrades and com- 
manders in the war for our nation's life — we ask thee to make us duly 
mindful of -all that we owe of love and gratitude to those who died for 
us. May the example of their unselfish devotedness, of their loyalty 
and courage, be sanctified to our ennobling, and to the ennobling of 
all who come after us. And may their loved ones have honor, and 
sympathy, and all needed aid, from those of us who are their fellow- 
mourners, and from all who are sharers in the benefits of a rescued and 
regenerated land. Make these bereaved ones the objects of thy special 
care. Be to them an ever present and an all-sustaining God ; and 
grant that they may find in thee a sufficiency in every hour of sorrow, 
or loneliness, or want, or temptation, or holy longing and spiritual need. 

And now we implore thy special blessing, our Father, upon our 
preserved national government, and upon all who represent it in posi- 
tions of service or honor. Bless the President of the United States, and 
those who counsel him or who are with him in authority. Grant that 
he and they may rule wisely and well, as accountable unto thee Bless 
our national Congress. Grant that in its deliberations and enactments 
there may be manifest a simple and a sincere desire to promote the 
interests of our entire country, and of all who dwell within our borders, 
and to exalt thy most excellent glory. Bless all in our land who are 
under authority, that they may be law-loving and law-abiding citizens, 
faithful, devoted and patriotic. So may we as a people be united and 
hearty and zealous in thy service ; and our nation be known among the 
nations of the earth as a people whose God is the Lord. 

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And unto us who are comrades in this special memorial service 
to-night, grant thy continued favor and protection. Enable us to be as 
true and faithful to our every duty as we ought to be to our country in 
the hour of its extremest need. May we be even more devotedly and 
unswervinglv the followers of the blood-stained banner of the cross than 
we were of the flag of our country in the days of battle. May we one 
and all be faithful soldiers of the Lord Jesus Christ, the great Captain 
of our salvation, to whom, with thee, our Father, and with the Holy 
Ghost, our Guide and Teacher, be glory and majesty, dominion and 
power, both now and evermore. Amen. 

Governor Hoyt introduced the orator, General Joshua L. Cham- 
berlain, ex-Governor of Maine, who delivered the following oration : 



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ORATION OF GOV. CHAMBERLAIN. 

Comrades and Friends: — There are many thoughts worthy to 
be uttered at the close of a day like this. Some of them I venture to 
speak for you, now tliat we have strewn the new flowers of spring over 
these sacred ashes, and have gathered here, as the shades of evening 
thicken, that our souls may deepen into thoughtful converse with the 
spirits that have passed before us, and touch those chords that sweep 
the past and future into one harmony. 

The roll-call shortens fast. The strife is long since over, but our 
list of casualties is not yet complete. The wounds and weakenings of 
the field are still wearing many away before their time. The strain of 
that long struggle is fast laying even our strongest low. 

How fresh their graves, and how thick they lie ! It seems as if the 
musketry and canister were cutting keen as ever. Honored and dear 
are they all, — they who fell beside us face to the foe, they who lan- 
guished away in dreary hospitals or in the torture of prisons, and they 
who sink down in the at"ter march of life. We close up our thinner 
ranks, holding nearer and dearer together, shoulder to shoulder, heart 
to heart. 

Thought widens, too. To us who now so often cross in spirit the 
broadening stream to hold converse with the great and noble who are 
gathering so fast on the other side, thought enlarges as the years flow 
on. The past, so crowded with stiiTing scenes and great events, nar- 
rows in the vista of our backward look ; but the lives that offered 
themselves up stand before us even grander than we knew them. New 
reasons, stronger justifications, wider ranges of vision as life opens out 
and on, show us more and more the measure of the great work done, 
the worth of the sacrifices outpoured, the high meaning and reach of 
those toils and sufferings which have sometimes seemed almost unavail- 
ing, and cheer us with glimpses of the immortal destinies into which 
our poor work was builded. 

Peace shows us not only what war costs, but what it is worth. 
Friends, we are not here to weep over graves, to submit to death, to 

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confess our human weakness and deplore the waste of human worth. 
We are here to see the triumph over death. The heavy stone set 
before the door of the sepulchre is rolled away with outbursting life, 
which blesses the earth after it has ascended into the skies. We are 
here to see and testify that human worth offered up with pure motive 
and in a great cause cannot perish from the earth — that life given for 
the sake of others, lives on in others in an undying course. 

Many a cause is deemed worthy the offering of life. Men go 
bravely to death for honor's sake, for the faith of a plighted word, for 
obedience to law; for virtue's sake, holding inviolate the sanctity of 
the body or the soul ; for freedom and right, — the nobility of life. Such 
things as these men hold dearer than life, and the names of those who 
make this offering the world " will not willingly let die." 

But, comrades, it seems to mc greatly to have distinguished and 
ennobled the service to which we were called, that wc were fighting 
for nothing narrow, nothing personal ; not for private rights and jjrivi- 
leges; not for homes and sanctities threatened by an invader; not for 
civil rights, such as security, property, freedom, and justice before the 
law. Wc were fighting on a wider field than that, — great as that has 
been in history. We were fighting for a higher thought, — a thought 
more distant, it is true, from individual interests, but a thought God has 
planted deep in the hearts of men, and set in high and awful sanctity 
over us, — I mean the thought of Country. 

The world knows us better now. Little shall we hear again of that 
false taunt that we were a people who could not be moved except 
through our selfish interests, that we were incapable of enthusiasm and 
devoid of the spirit of chivalry. 

No ! those who counted on that made a great mistake. There was 
no taint of self in the spirit that stirred our people, not even of those 
highest and dearest things of self which are called personal rights. A 
question was in issue before which self was dumb and dead. It con- 
cerned a thought, an idea, or, I might better say, an ideal,— that polit- 
ical ideal which determines the character of the American Union. The 
question was whether there was any such thing as the People of the 
United States of America. Observe, the question was not of the 
unqualified supremacy of the nation in all matters, but only in its own 

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sphere ; the question was not whether the national life was every- 
thing, but whether it was anything; in short, whether we had a Country 
or not. 

But we saw the Union scorned and defied, and taunts and jeers 
and deadly missiles hurled at that ideal of the People of the United 
States which to us was more than a name, but was a being, with 
a soul and a body, a life and work and destiny, a moral personality 
and power on the earth under which our highest worth and grandest 
work were to be achieved. And the duty came on us to make that 
ideal real by a demonstration which no man could challenge and no 
time efface. 

We saw the old tlag torn and trampled. We said we would raise it 
up again, single and supreme. We took the high oath that those stars 
should not be blotted out, nor dissevered and dispelled, that that pall of 
darkness should not overspread the sky ; but that those lights should 
burn, on both ocean shores and along the great gulf and the lakes.— 
beacons by which the beating hearts of humanity should be lighted and 
learn their way ! 

And then came such an outpouring as the world has scarcely seen 
before.— money cast into the treasury by millions, and. when all was 
c xhausted, men pledging their credit and their honor, and binding 
themselves to taxation in a debt it would take whole generations to pay, 
thousands of millions of dollars counted as dust and nothingness in 
comparison with that great cause; hundreds of thousands of men— the 
flower of our youth— renouncing their prospects and plans of life, with- 
out an instant's hesitation, pouring forth to face toils and sufferings and 
deaths in the field, languishing in hospitals, starving in prisons, dying 
by thousands and scores of thousands, and still undaunted— still press- 
mg forward as to a festival; mothers sending their first-born and their 
youngest; wives holding not back the fathers of their babes; sisters and 
lovers loosening from their arms their life's hope and joy; and then all 
following with loving care, with such comforts as soldiers may have, be 
it but the scraped lint; and then the blessing, blessed hands could do 
no more, lifted up to heaven in mute agony of prayer, not,— oh. marvel 
of devotion :— not that they should be spared the cup of anguish, but 
that the Country might live— one and free I 

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Yes, all that costly sacrifice of toil and treasure, of brave men's 
blood and women's tears, rose in one great offering and prayer, like a 
cloud of incense, to the feet of God 1 

And the offering was accepted, the prayer was heard ; counted 
worthy to have part in that great purpose and plan whereby this world 
shall be redeemed from evil, and God's will be done and kingdom 
come on earth ; accepted, the costly sacrifice, because we were, and 
were to be, a people and a power on the earth, with a work to do 
for man. 

I said it was a thought. It was a high and a great thought: Our 
Country, our whole Country — our Country first and forever! 

The eminence of this idea of country appears especially in three 
striking ways : 

First. — The supreme love for it set in the hearts of men. 
Second. — The supreme law of its sovereignty over men. 
Third.— T\\Q supreme sacrifice which it is the duty of men to make 
in its behalf. 

We may well turn our thoughts towards these themes upon an 
occasion like this, when the question so naturally arises, Why have 
these men died 't and what is the use of it, after all ? 

It must be for some very high and useful end that this sentiment 
of country is set so strong in the hearts of men as to overmaster all 
individual personal satisfactions, the enjoyment of which is commonly 
thought to be the chief thing which makes life worth living. There is 
something strange in seeing men declare that governments are insti- 
tuted to secure certain inalienable rights, such as life, liberty, and the 
pursuit of happiness, — which means, I suppose, the free enjoyment of 
their powers and possessions, — and then at the same moment and with- 
out hesitation, in that very cause, lay down forever that life and liberty 
and happiness, and sacrifice to the uttermost all that man holds dear 
on earth. 

There is surely something here which takes hold on greater things 
than individual rights and personal enjoyments. What is country to us 
if it bids us sacrifice all that we have and are, and annihilate ourselves 
on earth? What is that mysterious spell before which even life and 
love must lie dumb upon the altar ? 

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What can it be but that the nation, the people organized as soul 
and body, is a phase of the life of each member, a sphere in which his 
forces, his capacities, his worth, lind their highest expression. Man 
realizes his best only tlirough such membership. Each nation grows 
up around certain animating principles and leading ideas, and takes 
upon itself the moral responsibility of developing these ideas and mak- 
ing them actual in human life ; hence each has its creed, its faith, its 
calling, its destiny. This leads to nobler living and larger achieve- 
ment, to a more thorough realization of human capability and worth, 
than would be possible to men acting merely as individual units. 

The body politic gives each man his best advantage by recognizing 
all special excellences and organizing all differences in one complex 
and powerful whole, — all forces, aptitudes, talents, tastes and aspirations 
harmonized in one great moral accord and ideal aim. God has made 
the thought and sentiment of country sacred, because under it alone 
man can realize what is noblest in himself and likest to the divine. 

Nor can true freedom be found in solitude and isolation, nor 
even in voluntary conventional associations. It can come only by the 
mutual action and reaction, the reciprocal contact and support, of dis- 
similar parts harmonized to a common end. Lawlessness and license 
are not freedom. Obedience and equipoise are necessary that action 
may be truly free, that a power may work without working ill to itself 
or anything else. The body politic only, animated by great moral 
principles, and regulated by laws the expression of its conscience as 
well as its will, is ordained to make such freedom possible, and hence 
to bring out the highest worth of man. The tendency to such associa- 
tion is the working of an instinct of man's nature, and hence of a 
divine law. 

Other human associations have their divinely appointed place, — the 
family, the social circle, the neighborhood, the municipality, the church. 
These are all instruments of man's enfranchisement and advance, and 
as such have their rights and powers and sanctities. In this country, 
too, the States hold a peculiar place. The sovereignty of the people is 
divided in its exercise between the State as an organized political body, 
and the Nation as an organized political body. The Constitution of the 
United States imposes certain trusts and certain restrictions upon each 

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of these. With respect to some subjects it is the Nation which exercises 
unqualified and absolute sovereignty throughout all the States; and in 
respect to other subjects, the States have an unqualified and supreme 
power within their respective limits. But when the broadest interests 
are concerned, when the great questions concerning man's widest rela- 
tions and highest dignity are in issue, the name of Country is supreme 
above all other names. This is the highest unit, the most comprehen- 
sive form of organized human power. It is the largest association of 
men for widest human ends, and is thus the highest instrument for 
human welfare. 

A nation is not a mere voluntary society for certain definite and 
enumerated ends. It is the whole organized physical and moral force 
of a people, by which they seek to realize their cherished ideas, to bring 
out human worth, and give it guarantees in laws and institutions, to carry 
forward most effectively the whole great work of humanity. Hence it is, 
I believe, that Country holds that high sovereignty over us ; because of 
its appointed place and power in bringing about the ends of history, that 
man may be brought into harmony with himself and to that obedience 
which is the perfectness and freedom of all his powers. To this great 
end it is a consecrated minister, acting under a divine commission, 
entrusted with the high powers and awful sanctities which belong to 
supreme sovereignty. It knows no higher law but righteousness, and 
no master but God. 

Corresponding to this right of sovereignty there is the duty of 
sacrifice. It needed the office of priest as well as king to lead God's 
ancient people from the condition of bondage to that of a nation. 
Perpetual offerings had to be made in expiation of human error and 
human guilt. Sacrifice as well as command was necessary in order to 
make a people free and to keep them one. It is necessary still. 
Human society is not organized in the interests of absolute individual- 
ism, or individual absolutism. The nature of the body politic cannot 
be comprehended without the element of self-surrender. Indeed, the 
very spirit of political society is mutuality. It does not make free- 
dom of trade its highest maxim, but freedom of life, — freedom to do 
the best thing, as well as to sell at the best advantage. And to that 
end it must often set aside those teachings of so-called political econ- 

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omy which make intense selfishness the guide of life, getting the 
most by giving the least; renouncing all care or responsibility of 
man for man which binds man to man — putting men apart from 
each other, and thus sundering what God has put together. 

True politics recognizes no such economics as that. The word 
is, indeed, much abused. It does not mean the arts and tricks by 
which the people are deceived. It does not even mean the art of 
government as the restraint of freedom by arbitrary power. Even 
government does not mean the rule of power, — it means the organ- 
ization of forces. Politics means the art of living together, justly 
and nobly. It is the art of being a people, for the high ends of the 
people's being. It is to promote the nobility of life and the mastery 
of man over nature, over evil, over self. The spirit of sacrifice and 
self-surrender is therefore essential to the idea of citizenship. This 
service and sacrifice are demanded, and this high sovereignty exer- 
cised by reason of the very nature of society and the necessities of 
its organization. The individual is called upon to make this contri- 
bution because he is a member of that society, one of the constituent 
elements of it, and its welfare is one of the proper objects of his 
labor and his life. 

I am well aware that in the works on public law and in the 
strictly legal theories of the State, the high exercise of sovereignty 
is treated as in conflict with private rights, and so there is a theory 
at least that compensation is made for the injury so inflicted. 

Private property is taken for public uses, even against the will of 
the owner. The two forms under which this is done are the right of 
Taxation and the right of Eminent Domain. 

Taxation attempts to proceed upon a uniform and equitable plan 
by which each individual property-holder is made to contribute 
according to what is said to be his ability to pay ; but the theory is 
that he receives a full compensation in the protection and freedom 
he enjoys under the government. It would be bold, perhaps, to 
question the soundness of this reasoning as a basis for the right of 
taxation, much as one might be tempted to do so were this the place 
for such a discussion. I only refer now to the point that compen- 
sation is said to be and believed to be given. 

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What is taken from individuals under the right of eminent 
domain, is some private possession which has become peculiarly 
desirable or necessary to the interests of the people at large. Here 
there can be, of course, no uniform rule or general apportionment, 
and the individual owner receives a compensation of a definite pecu- 
niary value. It is not a sale where he is free to fix his price, but 
indemnification for injury determined by some legal umpire. 

Then again, where the service of individuals is taken without 
consent (as by draft for the army or navy), there is a certain com- 
pensation, in the form of payment. In all these acts there is an 
assumed right to take and to give without other limit than what the 
Government or the people deems proper. 

But it is one thing to give up a portion of your property or your 
service, and quite another thing to give your life. How can even 
Country ask men to do that? How can it compensate a dead man? 
May Government justly be scrupulous in small things and reckless 
in the great? These questions bring to the test the grounds on which 
the State makes demands on its citizens, and compels us to look to 
some other principle than individual advantage as a foundation for 
public law and sovereign rights. The truth is, the theory of compen- 
sation given by Government for all it takes from the citizen, is inade- 
quate as an explanation, and impossible in the nature of the case. 
Government takes what it did not give and cannot restore. It takes 
unecjually, and in a way which neither law nor equity can reach. 

There is absolutely no way of explaining this matter from the 
point of view of self-interest. It is possible to explain it only on the 
principle of membership, of sacrifice and self-surrender, and leave 
the justification of it, if need be, as a mystery not solvable by man. 
Self-devotion for the sake of Country can be conceived only in the 
light of that revelation of human brotherhood, that spirit of member- 
ship and participation of great human life, wherein one no longer 
measures his duty by the protection or advantage the Government 
affords to him, but rather by his own ability to cofttribiite. Some are 
strong and some are weak, some rich and some poor, some wise 
and some simple, but all are bound to put their best possible into 
the great common life and well-being of which they are constituent 

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parts. As to compensations, it cannot be pretended that there are 
many, or even any, which have what can be called exchangeable 
value among men. Something there may be of satisfaction in the 
consciousness of duty done ; but the chief of them must be found 
in that divine order of society whereby one cannot live to himself, 
and he who loses his life for life's true sake shall find it again unto 
life eternal. 

It is not claimed here that all who render great service or make 
the supreme sacrifice, act from this high motive and look to these 
transcendent rewards. Nor is it said that all who serve their country 
are equally meritorious, and those who die for it are necessarily 
saints. 

I am not discussing the relative merits of the citizens who serve 
their country. I am seeking a reason for this paramount demand of 
government upon the citizen, and his corresponding duty to yield 
to it. 

It will not do, indeed, to leave men to be actuated by such 
considerations alone as those which have been set forth. For not all 
can enter into this high conception of the place and service of man 
toward man, — none but those to whom it is given to see the divine 
order of society, and the consecrated offices to which each may be 
called by virtue of his membership thereof. So it is needful for gov- 
ernments to act upon a practical rule that shall come as near the 
moral one as possible, and compel men to do what is their duty, if 
they do not willingly accept it, and offer by a legal fictio7i such 
compensations and rewards as may seem least unjust. The laws of 
the State must in some things be shaped by its necessities, leaving 
the full determination of right and justice to Him who alone is able to 
judge and to execute in truth. 

But merely legal ideas can never solve the social problem. They 
can take but little cognizance of the complex relations in the member- 
ship of the great political society which we call country, where one 
main factor is the necessity of sacrifice, and the true and normal 
motive the spirit of good-will to others. 

On what other principle, indeed, can you justify this high-handed 
demand of government upon the individual ? Any other theory, it 

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seems to me, would make such acts the brutal despotism of society, — 
the flames of Moloch and the wheels of Juggernaut. Shall outrage 
be done to the few, that the many may be happy ? Might not the 
question rather be, alas ! Shall outrage be done to the many that 
the few may be happy ? 

To my mind, I confess, this problem of society and the individual 
member cannot be explained without reference to some better adjust- 
ments than we can make here, — some conscious part which each soul 
may sometime be brought to sec, and share in the completed toils 
and offerings of all. 

Let it not be thought cant or "preaching" if this view of the 
incompleteness of earthly life and the inadequacy of its judgments 
and awards makes it necessary for us to take into account another 
and immortal life of whicli this is still a part. 

This very feeling we have to hold dear and fast the memory of 
noble deeds, goes to prove the same thing. The flowers we scatter, 
the monuments we raise, our praises of the dead, and our tears for 
them, are no compensation to them. If it is permitted them to take 
note of our memorial services, they cannot look through these earthly 
confusions and see as yet the settled end. Still less can we allow 
ourselves to believe that such things are done merely as a lesson and 
incitement for coming generations, that they too may be induced to 
devote themselves to the service of country. There is no such bar- 
gain of gain or selfish ach'antage when we make our offerings to those 
who perished in a great cause. 

It is the outgoing of an instinct as normal and real as any craving 
of our nature not to let go the noble lives that have gone before 
us, and for our sakes, — to hold fast to them because they were one 
with us, and shall be again ! All we enjoy to-day of peace and 
freedom and scope of life is greatly due to brave and loving deeds 
done long ago. And what we likewise do shall live in others, and 
perchance not be lost in us. Many a mysterious hint is given in all 
God's revelations of truth that somehow, by and by, the souls that 
have made sacrifice for others' good shall enter into the conscious- 
ness of the victory won, — that in some way, by some lofty metemp- 
sychosis, the life surrendered here for others' weal shall reappear in 

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the soul whence it set forth, enlarged with all the noble attributes 
its toil and suffering had helped to realize in this earthly sphere, 
and to find its crowning joy of life, not in the supreme satisfaction 
of self, but in being a part of something greater than self. 

To that thought, it seems to me, all these memorials, these flowers, 
statues and heartfelt tributes tend. Tliis view makes them not less, 
but more. Many a touching tablet in old cathedrals like that which 
the roseate Alps look down upon in Berne, many a statue of world- 
wide fame and emblem of undying majestic devotion like that of 
Thorwaldsen's Lion of Lucern, testify that the chords of life are 
many and reach far, and that men should live all for each and each 
for all. 

Friends and citizens of this grand old State I pardon me if thoughts 
I can neither repress nor utter sweep me at their control, and leave 
me neither master of them nor of myself. 

Before me this vast assembly of loyal spirits swayed by one 
thought; around me this most imposing concourse of the highest and 
noblest in the land ; the President of the United States, that sole 
representative of all the People, holding the high place which Wash- 
ington and Lincoln held, and in character worthy to be their peer; 
every branch of the Government represented, the Cabinet, the Court, 
Senators and Representatives in Congress ; Governors of States ; offi- 
cers of the army and navy, among them the General-in-Chief, and by 
his side that honored son of your own State, the senior Major-Gen- 
eral, - these veterans of every rank and grade, but all one in spirit, 
one in service, one in the power of a common citizenship. And others 
too, 1 see, but not with bodily eyes, an invisible but glorious throng,— 
those twelve regiments of yours which at one time and another I was 
honored to have represented in my command ; they too who have 
passed that supreme test of loyal devotion, those true-hearted young 
officers bearing names familiar as household words among you, who 
fell by my side on many a field where the day was saved because 
they had chosen that darkness should fall on their eyes and on yours 
forever here rather than on their country's honor; and those others, 
nameless hosts, — but not nameless on the book of God's remembrance, 
— sons of yours, brothers of mine, — for if not of one blood by birth, 

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does not the mingled blood, outflowing in one stream, make us brothers 
too? 

Forms and voices throng around ; lingering memories and living 
thoughts blend in one maze that baffles speech. I see the mighty 
vision, I hear the vast accord ; but the tongue cannot grasp and utter 
all it tells. 

I take up this tablet* on the page you have given me here. Heroic 
names ! glorious forms ! 

Kearney — The gallant, the chivalrous — too early made immortal. 

Reno — Fearless fighting up the mountain side, whence God took 
him. 

Reynolds — Able, enthusiastic, magnanimous, willing to serve where 
he was worthy to command, falling in the midst of an heroic service 
which was also high command, holding the enemy in check by his 
resolute spirit, while his ebbing life-blood glorified the sod of the 
State where he had his birth. 

Sedgwick — Dear John Sedgwick ; lifted high above all thought of 
self, and so lifted higher. 

Mc Pherson — Large of brain and pure of soul, seeing things to their 
reasons and results ; who fell commanding, and who lives in our hearts, 
commanding still. 

Heintzelman — True soldier, readier at deeds than at words, ever 
faithful, earnest for the right ; who had promised to be here with us 
to-night, and ivJio is here. 

Custer — Central figure of the fight, brilliant as a streaming banner, 
sharp as the sabre's edge. 

Hooker — Soldier and gentleman, gallant and brave, experiencing 
varied fortunes, but whose fame is steadfast and above the clouds. 

Thomas — The man of mighty mould, firm as a rock, in character 
and combat ; immovable when he resohed to stand, irresistible when 
he moved. 

Farragut — The great-hearted and sincere : dauntless hero, passing 
through deaths untouched, and, having now passed on, untouched by 
death. 



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Meade — How shall 1 speak of him, and what need I indeed ? 
Has not the distinguished head of the department of justice in the 
Government done our hero justice? and has not the illustrious soldier, 
the general of the army, paid him this very morning a generous 
soldier's tribute? Thoughtful, prudent, sagacious, conscientious, able 
to carry his point with vigor, and capacious to comprehend and direct 
great operations. Who of us Fifth Corps men can forget that morning 
on the hurried march which led up to Gettysburg, and in momentary 
expectation of the great battle, when Meade was suddenly summoned 
from the head of the corps to the head of the army ? Without time 
to change anything to suit his own ideas, or even to organize a staff, 
forced to take things as they were, and as best he could to meet the 
expectations of the country in the great issue then trembling in the 
balance; how quietly, how modestly, yet how calmly and with what 
self-possession he assumed that delicate and difficult, nay that tremen- 
dous trust I 

What followed on that field of Gettysburg is known to us,— known 
to history and to fame. 

Let us by fitting memorials perpetuate the cognizance among 
men of characters like these. Let us hold fast by fitting symbols 
and by the likeness of remembered forms, those whose conspicuous 
career makes them worthy to represent the heroic virtues of all the 
soldiers of the Republic. Let us cherish still with loyal love those 
who have nobly passed away, and the things for which they died. 
And as we turn to part once more, let us highly resolve that from 
thoughts and memories like these our lives shall grow more noble, 
and that in the times to come we will hold ourselves loyal to our 
history, true to our ideals, and worthy of our dead. 



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At the dose of this oration the long and continued applause testi- 
fied that the sentiments contained therein found ready response in the 
hearts of his audience. As soon as the applause had subsided, Com- 
mander A. J. Sellers stepped to the front and asked permission to 
interrupt the regular programme to perform a pleasant duty required 
of him, and addressing General Chamberlain said : 

Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen : — I crave your indul- 
gence while I trespass upon your time for a few moments, in the per- 
formance of a duty assigned me by direction of the organization of 
which I have the honor to be a member. From time immemorial, upon 
occasions of ceremony, and even at other times, decorations, emblems, 
and devices have been worn by associations of men ; by individuals 
from the most e.xalted in station to the humblest sphere in life; and 
what does this all signify ? Country and State have conferred upon 
subject and citizen badges of honor for meritorious services, colleges 
and institutes, for triumphs achieved by their students. Individual 
representatives of organizations of every character, proudly display 
upon their person the evidence of their membership. But there is a 
badge of honor whose lustre is greater than all, and more to be desired 
than the decoration of any other nation, which, when worn upon the 
breast of a comrade entitled to wear it, speaks to all the world that he 
has served his country during its terrible struggle for unity and honor. 
It is the badge of the Grand Army of the Republic ! whose cardinal 
principles are Fraternity, Charity, and Loyalty. That Fraternity which 
cements us together in one common brolherliood, whose ties were 
welded together in the fire of battle; that Cliarity which prompts us to 
the noblest sacrifices for the needy and destitute wards of our nation ; 
that Loyalty which binds us to a faithful performance of our duties as 
citizens,— that jM-actical loyalty, which grasps a rifle when the country's 
flag is assailed, and flics to the defense of the Union. The symbol of 
our order we cherish, because it is the emblem of our Grand Union, 
which epitomizes the patriotism of all those who fought, thought, 
prayed, and died for our country in her hour of need, — because it is 
the mouthpiece of a fraternity of loyal hearts, an eternal monitor to all 
men that loyalty still lives, — the pearl of great price to the eyes of the 

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widow and the orphan whom it shields willi its mantle of charity, — 
and finally, the talisman of an eternal vigilance which is the price of 
liberty. 

And now (turning to the orator of the evening), Comrade Cham- 
berlain, the pleasing duty devolves upon me of presenting to you your 
certificate of election as an honorary meniber of George G. Meade Post 
No. I, Department of Pennsylvania, and of presenting to you, in their 
name, the distinctive badge of their organization. Though of little 
intrinsic value, accept it, comrade, as a slight evidence of our regard 
and esteem for your kindness and the sacrifices you have made in 
coming so far to do honor to the memory of our dead heroes, promi- 
nent among whom is Pennsylvania's distinguished soldier Major-Gen- 
eral George G. Meade, the Hero of Gettysburg, after whom our organi- 
zation is named. We are deeply sensible of the preference you have 
given this city, this audience, and this Post, when pressed by so many 
invitations from other localities to do reverence to Memorial Day, which 
honor, sir, is gratefully appreciated (handing General Chamberlain his 
notification of election, and pinning upon the lapel of his coat the gold 
badge of the Post). 

After music by the band. Governor Hoyt introduced Mr. Francis 
De Haas Janvier, who read the following 

POEM. 

An unknown Union soldier was found dead, upon the field of Gettysburg, with an 
ambrotype, containing the portraits of three children, in his hand. 

The incident was published, and photographic copies of the picture made, one of 
which, ultimately, reached the family of the soldier, who was thus identified as Sergeant 
Amos Humiston, of the One Hundred and Fifty-fourth Regiment, New York Volunteers. 

THE SOLDIER'S PRAYER. 

BY FRANCIS D E HAAS JANVIER. 

"Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive: and let thy widows 
trust in me."— Jer. 49 : U. 

'Twas on the field of Gettysburg, 

With war's wild havoc spread ;— 
With steeds and riders, friends and foes, 

The dying and the dead :— 
Where many a dauntless spirit fell 

To yield life's latest trust ; 
Where many a lofty form, brought low. 

Was marred with blood and dust. 

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The flaming fray swept fiercely on ; 

The tumult passed away ; 
And, all unheeded, with the dead, 

A wounded soldier lay :— 
Exhausted,— waning life revealed 

In every shortening breath : 
Without one comrade,— left to die,— 

He was alone with death I 

Then slowly, with a trembling hand, 

From out his bloody vest. 
He drew a casket, which had lain 

Upon his mangled breast. 
From whence three little faces beamed. 

In childhood's loving light,— 
And there, amid the gathering gloom, 

He fixed his fading sight. 

He pressed the picture to his lips, 

And breathed a fervent prayer 
That God would malte his lonely wife. 

And little ones. His care: — 
And, though no human help was nigh. 

Some messenger provide. 
To bear to them his parting love. 

And tell them how he died. 

His strength failed faster,— but there came 

A shout along the field ; 
And, answering, from the distant lines, 

The trump of Victory pealed : — 
He saw the Patriot host advance 

Where Trea.son found a grave : 
And, over all, the Stars and Stripes, 

In triumph, proudly wave! 

' Thank God!— We die, but Freedom lives! " 

In earnest tones, he said ; 
He raised his blue cap in the air, 

Above his drooping head : 
Again he blessed his cherished ones, — 

A shudder, and a sigh,— 
And one more patriot-martyr's name 

Was registered on high ! 



Far from the field of Gettysburg, 

An humble cottage stood, — 
And there a stricken woman pined 

In dreary widowhood:— 
A mother, with her children, left, 

In sad suspense, to yearn 
For one departed, long before,— 

Who never would return. 

For many a v?eary month, she sought 

Some tidings of his fate,— 
And, with the children, wandered forth, 

To watch, and weep, and wait: — 

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But fruitless seemed the widow's trust, 

And vain tlie orplians' prayer:— 
Doubt slowly turned to certainty, 

And hope became despair. 

But God, whose aid is ever near,— 

Whose love is over all ;— 
Who, in His kindly vigil, bends 

To note the sparrow's fall :— 
Had listened to the soldier's prayer, 

And marked his latest sigh ;— 
Had treasured up the widow's tears, 

And heard the orphans' cry. 

The precious picture which had lain 

Upon the soldier's breast. 
Preserved, by Providential care. 

Fulfilled his last request: — 
That token, to his weeping wife, 

And little ones, supplied 
Assurance of his parting love, — 

And told them how he died. 

The poem was warmly applauded. 

Miss TiLLiE D. Summers then sang a soprano solo called "Scatter 
Sweet Flowers o'er the Dead," which was so well received that she 
responded to the encore by singing "They Died for You and Me." 

Governor Hoyt announced that the time had come for calling upon 
distinguished guests for some remarks, and introduced the President 
of the United States, Rutherford B. Hayes, who was received with 
applause and cheers. The President spoke as follows : 

Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen : — I thank the Comrades 
of this Post of the Grand Army for the opportunity they have given ine 
to take part in this ineeting in aid of the fund for the erection of a monu- 
ment in honor of General Meade. The other great commanders of 
the Union armies who have passed away, have been remembered by 
their comrades and fellow-citizens, and their monuments may be seen 
in the beautiful parks of the national capital. You will sec there the 
monument of that noble model old soldier, the veteran of three wars, — 
a monument that fitly commemorates the services and achievements of 
General Scott. You will see there a monument to the rock of Chicka- 
mauga, General Thomas. You will see there also a monument to that 
gallant son of my own State and county, the lovable and beloved Gen- 
eral McPherson. But as yet Pennsylvanians, Philadelphians, no suit- 

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able memorial of General Meade has been built. This meeting, as I 
understand, is to do something to correct that. And surely there are 
reasons enough why a monument should be buik in honor of General 
Meade. I do not wish to repeat what has been far better said than I 
can say it in the eloquent address to which we have just listened, and 
yet you will, perhaps, bear with me while I try to emphasize two or 
three points in relation to General Meade. 

He commanded at the very crisis of the war that great army which 
we arc accustomed to hear, and glad to hear, spoken of as "the grand 
old Army of the Potomac." He commanded that army at a time when 
its defeat and desti-uction meant, humanly speaking, the ruin and the 
loss of the national cause. 

Again, it may be truthfully said of General Meade, that in every 
station he ever held, from the lowest to the highest, he was always 
adequate to the duties of his place ; that he was always able, faithful, 
and conscientious, and that he never, under any circumstances, failed 
to do his whole duty. 

General Meade was withal one of the most fortunate of command- 
ers. Under him, and perhaps I may say under him alone, the Army 
of the Potomac never knew defeat or serious disaster ; and it was his 
fortune to be its commander in that great decisive battle, that battle 
which will be of unrivaled interest in our history as long as that history 
shall be known. If that battle had gone against our cause, tlie taunt 
of the hostile Englishman that "the bubble Republic is bursted " would 
have been true. But now, Meade's name and fame and memory are 
forever safe. They are linked in adamant with Gettysburg, and Gettys- 
burg is linked in adamant with the salvation of the Republic. 

When we build a monument to 'Meade it will rec[uire no explana- 
tion. No words should be wasted in inscriptions. We shall read upon 
its ample sides the simple inscription : 

" In memory of George G. Meade, the Commander of the Union 
Army at Gettysburg." 

Applause and cheers greeted the President when he closed his 
remarks, and continued long after he had taken his seat, which he 
acknowledged by rising and bowing to the audience. The applause 

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was again renewed when Governor Hoyt introduced General William 
T. Sherman, General of the Army of the United States, who stepped 
briskly to the front of the stage, and without wailing for the subsiding 
of the applause which greeted him, spoke rapidly, as follows : 

Ladies and Gentlemen : — When 1 tell you I have performed a full 
day's work in that imposing ceremonial of decorating graves, and as I 
endeavored in a few words at General Meade's tomb to express my 
feelings, thoughts and admiration of that good, great and glorious man, 
I know you will permit me to close with a very few words, and let them 
be of a business character, following the example of my Commander- 
in-chief, the President of the United States. Let us look as this question 
of General Meade's monument as a business transaction. Supposing 
Meade had been defeated at Gettysburg, what would have been the con- 
dition of Philadelphia ? Suppose you owed him the one-hundredth part 
of that success in Philadelphia, can you count the millions you owe him 
to-day ? Supposing Lee, on the other hand, had slipped between Meade 
and Baltimore and Washington, what would have been the result then ? 
Meade, instead of being attacked, would have been the attacking party, 
and his loss would have been enormous, even if he had been successful. 
Again, when he took command of that army he displayed an amount of 
self-sacrifice that I am almost safe in saying no other man on this conti- 
nent would have done — so cheerful, so noble and so well, with decision 
and patriotism combined. But when he took the command like a man 
that he was, he won that battle, the fame of which has resounded over 
the earth ; and then, as the President has well said, this nation became 
firmly established. From that day every man in the United States, 
whether a Philadelphian or not, owes to General Meade a debt he can 
never pay, and were you to erect a monument of pure gold you would 
still be indebted to him. He sleeps well where he is; he asks nothing 
of you ; his family admit that they have been treated kindly by Phila- 
delphians, and they are grateful and his friends are grateful. But it is 
due to yourselves, and you owe this duty to your children, to erect this 
monument ; and when they see his statue in the Park they will emulate 
his example both in patriotism and courage, and you will then be truly 
a city of brotherly love, as you are properly named. 

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Governor Hoyt introduced Attorney-General of the United States 
General Charles Devens, who was enthusiastically received. He 
said : 

Among the beautiful festivals in which the Catholic Church seeks 
to impress the truths of religion upon Christian people, is the ceremony 
of All Souls' Day, which is instituted to commemorate and remember 
all the departed. To-day, comrades, this has been our All Souls' Day, 
by which we have sought to commemorate together all who have passed 
away who in their lifetime did noble service in their country's cause. 
We have sought to establish by this ceremony our communion through 
the whole of this broad land, not only by processions, with banners and 
music from crowded cities, but not the less with the little family that 
to-day has gone out from some little farm, or to some little churchyard, 
to commemorate one who was once a beloved brother or dear son. 
Wherever our brave men lie, whether in the swamps or in the tangled 
wildwood, or whether they lie in the crowded cemeteries, with monu- 
mental marble above them, all are gathered and all are remembered 
together to day. To say of all these men that all were equally brave 
and were equally self-sacrificing, would not be true. In our army were 
the usual varieties of men, yet, when deductions are made, history will 
attest that no army was ever gathered together more resolute in its 
struggles, more constant in its disasters, or more generous and forgiv- 
ing in its victories. I would fain believe these men have not passed 
away without aspirations worthy of the noble cause in which they ren- 
dered up their lives. And now, comrades and friends, it is most meet 
and proper that such a day should conclude with such a meeting as 
this, which seeks to reinforce a spirit which is to result in an appro- 
priate memorial to General Meade. In honoring the generals of our 
armies we honor the men who served under them. No man can have 
a higher regard than I for General Meade, for I believe 1 was honored 
with his regard and friendship. Yet as I remember him in this monu- 
ment, I desire to remember with him all the brave men who, at Gettys- 
burg and other great fields of the war, stood side by side with him. 
We can only remember our soldiers by remembering those who led 
them. The fame of the officers and soldiers of the army cannot be 

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divided. If those lips of General Meade, which are sealed in death 
now, could speak, sure I am he would say: "Erect no monument 
to me that does not commemorate alike all the brave men who have 
stood by my side." You cannot divorce the fame of Sherman from 
the bronzed and bearded veteran that carried his musket with him 
over half the continent, — he would not let you do it if you could; and 
you cannot divide the fame of Grant from that of every soldier who 
formed one in that glittering wall of steel with which he environed 
and encompassed Lee. When you rear this monument, you will rear 
it in remembrance of the great chief whose image it will bear, but you 
will rear it also for a tender remembrance of every brave soldier who 
was by his side. This great field of Gettysburg, as the President has 
well suggested, is one whose reminiscences are peculiarly dear and 
tender in the State of Pennsylvania. It was the culminating point of 
the war. Great as the interest in this battle is to the whole country, it 
is of peculiar interest to you of Pennsylvania. It was fought, as Gen- 
eral Sherman has said, for the possession of your political capital, 
Harrisburg, and your great commercial capital, in which I have now 
the honor to stand. Who is it, then, that can say that one or both 
might not have fallen if victory had been otherwise? And now, 
friends, I trust that this monument, with its remembrances, will be 
reared, and reared soon, for it seems to me that it is a duty which has 
been almost too long delayed ; and when it is done, whether it shall 
stand in these streets, where he walked, or whether in that park which 
he loved to visit, wherever it shall stand it shall be a monument to 
patriotism, to liberty, to country, that shall endure long after we have 
passed away. If hereafter there are to be dangers, the monument 
you will rear shall inspire again to courage, to devotion, and to patriot- 
ism worthy of the deeds that are passed. 

The next speaker was General Winfield S. Hancock, Major- 
General United States Army, and in introducing him Governor Hoyt 
suggested that the audience rise to be presented to the " Whirlwind of 
the Army of the Potomac," a suggestion that was promptly acted upon, 
and General Hancock received an ovation that appeared to somewhat 
embarrass him. After bowing his acknowledgments he said : 

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I might very well, instead of being considered a guest to-night, 
claim to be one of those assembled here to receive the distinguished 
persons who surround me ; for I am a citizen of your own State, and 
was born but twenty miles away. Or, as a guest, I might say some- 
thing appropriate to the occasion ; for in my service during the rebel- 
lion, I was thrown very near to General Meade, having served in the 
same army with him or under his command during nearly all the 
period of that strife. I was necessarily at times much with him, and 
had thereby opportunities of knowing much of his " inner life," and 
of the "main springs" wliich moved "affairs" as well; but I did not 
expect to be called upon to-night for any remarks. 

I came here understanding that I was not to speak, but that others 
would say all that was needful on the occasion, and far better than I 
could do. Without consideration, I could not speak with that care 
which I think the subject deserves, and I shall not detract from the 
occasion by crude utterances, especially when so much has been said 
by others that was appropriate and fitting in every way. 

I am satisfied that the monument in which we all feel an interest 
will be promptly erected, and it will only be, necessary, when com- 
pleted, to inscribe upon it, on one side, "Meade," and on the reverse, 
" Gettysburg." 

The last speaker. General Stewart L. Woodford, ■•■ United States 
District Attorney of New York, was then introduced by Governor Hoyt, 
and was received with a round of applause. His brief address, delivered 
in his stirring, eloquent manner, won for him highest encomiums and 
continued applause. 

Music by the band closed the exercises of the evening. 



*We regret that we have not been able to procure a copy of General Woodford's 
address, but as he spoke extempore he had no notes to give us, and the reporters made 
none ; we can only add that it was a fitting conclusion to such a meeting before such 
a distinguished audience. 

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The guests were then taken in charge by the committee and 
escorted to the Union League Club House, where they were intro- 
duced to the members of the League and their friends, and were 
refreshed at the banqueting table kindly spread by the members of 
League. The following invitation had been sent out and responded 
to: 



Informal Reception. 

Union Leaguf, of Philadelphia 

to tlio 

Guests of Mf.aue Post No. i, Grand .-Vkmy of the Republic, 

.Saturilay, May 29th, 1880, al 10 o'clock P.M. 



The Presidential party took the midnight train back to Washing- 



ton. 



The committee on the Meade Memorial subsequently submitted 
the followincf report as the result of their labors : 

Philadelphia, June 2S, iSSo. 
JOS. R. C. WARD, Adjutant G. G. Meade Post, No. i, G. A. R., Phila- 
delphia. 

Dear Sir and Comrade : — The committee on " Meade Memorial" 
would respectfully submit the following report : 

The original committee was appointed June 12, 1878, at the sugges- 
tion of Comrade T. Morris Knight, who, noticing on the previous Deco- 
ration Day that there was no monument at General Meade's grave, 
made a motion, which was carried, that a committee be appointed to 
raise funds for the erection of a monument in Laurel Hill, but as the 
lot did not belong to General Meade's family, and as objections were 
made to a monument, it was decided to work in connection with the 
Fairmount Park Art Association, which had already taken steps towards 
the erection of an equestrian statue of General Meade, in bronze, in the 
Park, and for which purpose they had appropriated 55^5,000. 

At the semi-annual department encampment of the Grand Army 
of the Republic at Gettysburg in July, 1878, on motion of Comrade 
Fagan, of Post 2, a committee was appointed to enlist the different Posts 
of the Department in the work ; a committee of one hundred and 
twenty ladies, known for their active work among the different char- 
itable institutions of the city and .State, has also rendered great assis- 
tance by raising about $7,000 for this object. 

Whether on account of the citizens having given General Meade's 
family the substantial presents of a house and a large sum of money, 
or whether it is a want of a proper appreciation of his services, the fact 
remains that the erection of a monument to his memory does not meet 
with either the support or enthusiasm it ought. The Department Com- 
mittee has visited and sent circulars to the different Posts in the Depart- 
ment, and also sent circulars to many officers of the Army of the 
Potomac, Fifth Corps, and friends of General Meade throughout the 
country, and the net result of eighteen months labor is only about 

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$2,loo, of which amount about $600 was received from fifteen officers, 
mostly residing outside of the State; $601 from Post i, which includes 
the generous contribution of Comrade E. N. Benson of $500; $300 
from Post 2 ; and $100 from Post 5 ; and only about $500 from all the 
other Posts in the Department and country. 

When we take into consideration that there are about sixteen 
thousand members of the Grand Army of the Republic in this Depart- 
ment alone, and that at least fourteen thousand of them served in the 
Army of the Potomac, it shows that either the Comrades must be very 
poor, or that they care very little about perpetuating the memory of 
their old commander or of the Army of the Potomac, for a monument 
to General Meade would not only commemorate his services but that 
of the army he commanded. 

Your Post committee, after holding a number of meetings, and 
taking into consideration many different methods for raising money, 
thought it advisable to try and raise the money by subscription instead 
of giving an entertainment, which would necessitate great labor with 
uncertain results, the Post having pledged itself to give $250 towards 
the erection of the " Meade Memorial." 

Your Committee decided, at a meeting held November 29, 1879, 
that a subscription book be opened, and the Comrades requested to 
give as much as they could consistently afford ; this was done, and up 
to the present time twenty-eight Comrades have subscribed $126, — $116 
being paid in ; $17 has also been paid in by others, not members, mak- 
ing a total of $143 received from this source. 

At a meeting of the Decoration Committee of the Post it was 
decided, in connection with this Committee, to hold a memorial ser- 
vice, at the Academy of Music, on the evening of Decoration Day, 
May 29, 1880, in aid of the " Meade Memorial " fund, and to invite 
General and e.\-Governor Joshua L. Chamberlain, of Maine, to deliver 
an oration, which he consented to do. The Joint Committees com- 
pleted the necessary arrangements, the services were held, and proved 
a decided success in every particular. President Hayes, Attorney-Gen- 
eral Devens, Secretary of War Ramsey, Generals Sherman, Hancock, 
Auger, T. Kilby bmith, Stewart L. Woodford, Hartranft, Governor Hoyt, 
and other prominent officers and ex-officers of the army, were present ; 



also four of the five members of Congress from this city. Generals 
Burnside, Slocum and Crawford had accepted invitations, and expected 
to be present, but were prevented by illness. 

The Post has the satisfaction of knowing that there was assembled 
on the stage of the Academy that evening a body of distinguished men 
such as seldom have been brought together in the country, outside of 
the city of Washington. 

The net financial results are shown in the report of the Treasurer 
to be $274.59. Although the amount is not as large as was anticipated, 
your committee are confident that the effect of the meeting has been to 
bring the matter before the public in a manner such as it has never 
been before. About $500 has already been received, since the meeting, 
from different sources, which we are, and ought to be, credited with 
obtaining. 

The letter received from the Department Commander shows that 
the reports of the meeting have infused new life into the order through- 
out the State, and that a new Post has already been organized in conse- 
quence of it. 

The Committee suggest that the thanks of the Post be given 
to General and ex-Governor Chamberlain for his eloquent oration; 
F. DeHaas Janvier, for his appropriate poem ; the newspapers of 
the city for very kindly reducing their bills for advertising from $49. 75 
to $31.66, making a reduction of $18.09 ; also to Comrade W. H. Nagle, 
for posting bills; C. F. Haseltine, for moving picture from Union League 
to Academy and back without charge. Our thanks to the l^nion League 
for entertaining our guests have already been given. 
Respectfully submitted in F. C. and L., 

GEORGE Q. WHITE, 
P. D. KEYSER, M. D., 
H£NRY H. BINGHAM, 
R. DALE BENSON. 



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The following is coi))- of resolution of thanks sent to the Union 
Lea>;ue : 

Hkadquarteks Geo. (]. Meaok 1'ost i, 

Daft of Pcnna., G.A.R., 

S. K. Cor. Eleventh and Chestnut Sts., 

PHii.Ai)r:i,i>HiA, [une 3, 1880. 
Wm. E. Littleton, Escj., 

Secretary Uniirn League of Philadelphia, 
Broad and Sansoni Sts., 
My dear Sir :— 

I have the honor to inform you that by the unanimous vote 
of the ]'ost at a regular muster held on Monday evening, May 31, 
1880, that the thanks of George G. Meade Post i. Department of 
Pennsylvania, Grand Army of the Republic, are due and are hereby 
tendered to the "Union League or Piulai.lphia," for the very 
handsome, generous and substantial manner they entertained the 
guests of the Post attending the services of the Post at the Academy 
of Music in aid of the monument to the memory of Pennsylvania's 
illustrious soldier. General George G. Meade, at their elegant Club 
House, Broad and Sansom streets, on Saturday evening, May 29, 1880^. 
Asking your acceptance of this slight return for your extreme kind- 
ness and generosity, 

I have the honor to be, sir, 

\'ery respectfully yours, 

JOS. R. C. WARD, 

Att jilt ant. 



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APPKNDIX. 

Dcpfirtmciit of the Interior, Washington, 
April ig/h, iSSo. 
Dkar Sir : — I have receiveit your kind letter of the i4lh instant, and thank you very sincerely 
for the invitation with which you honor me. I do not know yet whether it will be possible for 
me to comply with it : I cannot, therefore, make a definite promise. I can only say that if my 
engagements here permit me I shall be glad to attend the interesting meeting in which you ask 
me to take part. Very truly yours, 

C. SCHURZ. 
Col. A. J. Sellers, Comd'r Post One, G. A. R.. 
Philadelphia. Pa. 

l)epartment of Justice, Washington. 
May 22, iSSo. 
My Dear Sir, — I have your note. 1 e.\pect to be in Philadelphia on the evening of the 
twenty-ninth. Wiurs truly. 



C. C Knight, Esq., 301 and 303 N. Second St. 
Philadelphia, Pa. 



CHAS. DEVENS. 



Washington, 1). C, 

May 28, 1S80. 



G. y. White, Esq., U. S. A. 

Sir,— I am pleased to be able to accept the invitation of George G. Meade Post, G. A. R., 
to be present at the Meade Memorial Services on Saturday even, next, at the Academy of Music. 
Philadelphia. I am, very respectfully, your obed't serv't, 

JOS. K. McCAMMON. 



Senate Chamber, Washington, 
April 30, 18S0. 
Col. A. J. Sellers, My Dear Comrade. 

My Dear Sir : — Your kind letter has remained unanswered so long because I have been 
absent from Washington. I regret exceedingly that I cannot promise to attend the very inter- 
esting ceremonies proposed, but think it will l)e impossible for me to come. With the highest 
appreciation of the honor you do me, and the kindly sentiments of your letter, 1 am. 

Respectfully, 

|(»HX A. l.OGAN. 



Senate Chamber, Washington, 
April t8, j8So. 
My Dear Commander :— 1 have delayed answering your kind favor of the 9th inst. in view 
of some contingencies that came up after my talk with General Bingham. I had written a letter 
of acceptance to your previous invitation, but withheld it for the reasons mentioned above. I 
am now glad to say that it will be in my power, and most agreeable to me, to join you on Deco- 
ration Day. With thanks for your kind attention, and with high regard, 1 am 

Faithfully yotirs, 

A. E. BURNSIDE. 
Comd'r A. J. Sellers. Com. on Invitation, etc. 



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House Reprcsenlatives, Wasliington, T). C. 
May 2S, 1880. 
Gentlemen : — Accept my thanks for your kind invitation to the National Memorial Services 
n aid of the Meade Monument Fund. 1 regret that circumstances over which I have no control 
prevent my attending. Yours truly, 

SAM. J. RANDALL. 
Messrs. G. Q. White, H. C. Potter, P. L). Kcyser, etc., 

Committee of Invitation. 



House of Representatives, Washington, T). C, 
January 10, 18S0. 
Col. A. J. Sellers, S. E. Cor. nth and Chestnut Stb., Phila. 

Dear Sir : — Yours of the 10th inst., inviting me to attend the decoration services at Laurel 
Hill on the 29th May next, came duly to hand. I regret that it is impossible for me to be with 
you on that occasion, as I have conditionally promised to attend a similar meeting in Oliio if I 
can be absent from Washington at that time. Regretting that I cannot comply with your 
request, I am \'cry tnily youn;, 

J. A.GARFIFLD. 



Headquarters Army iif the L^nited States, Washington, D. C, 
April 10, 1880. 
Col. A. J. Sellers, Invitation Com. National Memorial Service, Philadelphia, Pa. 

IIear Sir : — Your kind note of March 29th is only received to-day, by reason of my absence 
in the West. I am now back at my post, and accept your invitation for May 29, to assist with a 
few remarks in the beautiful custom now established of decorating with flowers the graves of our 
dead comrades. With great respect. Your friend 

W. T. SHERMAN. 



Office of the Admiral, Washington, IJ. C, 
May fs, iSSo. 
Dear Sir : — I beg leave to acknowledge the receipt of your communication of the 12th 
• nstant. Much as it would please me to be present on so interesting an occasion as your celebra- 
tion of the 29th instant, I verj' much fear it will not be in my power to do so. 

The delicate state of my wife's health prevents my leaving the city, and she is not able to 
accompany me. On that account I was obliged to decline an invitation to be a member of the 
Board of Visitors at the Naval Academy, at the examination commencing May 22 and ending in 
June, and could hardly with propriety accept an invitation to go elsewhere during tbe same 
pjriod, even if other circiunstances did not prevail to prevent my doing so. 

Assuring you that 1 highly appreciate the compliment you have extended to me, and hoping 
that your reunion may i)ass off agreeably and in accordance with your expectations, I have the 
honor to remain, 

Yours very respectfully, 

DAVID D. PORTKR, 
A. J. Sellers, Esq., Comm'r George G. Meade Post No. i, G. A. R., Admiral. 

Philadelphia, Pa. 



War Department, Quartermaster General's Office, \Va^hingt(Jn, D. C, 

, , . May 20, j8So. 

^Fajor G. Q. White, U. S. A., and others. 

Dear Sir :— I have had the honor to receive an Invitation to attend the National Memorial 
Services of 29th instant, in aid of the Meade Monument Fund. I regret that it is not possible 
for me to visit Philadelphia on that interesting occasion. Hoping that the movement may be 



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successful, and rh.u the incnioiy ,.f this j;ioh1 solilit-r, to wIkmu I'hilrtdclphi.i ..wcs ih.: Hcfeal of a 
powerful in\adi-r of her State, iiiny he honoied l>y the erection of a fitting inonninent, I remain, 

Respectfully yours, 

iM. C. MKIOS, 
(Juarterniaster lienerai, Hrevel Major-! leneral. 



War Department, (Quartermaster (Jeneral's Office, Washington, I), C, 

I\[ay iS, iS8o. 
Dfar Major :— I received this morninji the invitation to the Memorial Services for the 
•' Meade Monument Fund," you so kindly seiu. 1 am very much indebted to you for remem- 
herins me. If possible 1 will be present, but I think 1 shall be in Chicago at the end of the 
month, if I can get away from here at all. 1 hoijc there will be a fund raised of such magnitude 
that a monument worthy of the fine old soklier can l>e constructed. With thanks for your cour- 
tesy, 1 am \'oiirs trulv. 

IIKNKV C. HODCIKS. 
Major G. t^). \\hite. Deputy n. M. ( lenM. 



I Governor's Island, New York Hotel. 

Col. A. J. Sellers, Commander (jeorge G. Meade Post i, C. A. R. 

My Dear Sir :— Your letter of March lo, inviting me to participate in the Memorial Services 
-May 29, at the Academy of Music, under the direction of the (k-o. G. Meade Host, No. i,(;.A R., 
was received. I have determuied that, unless interruiited, T shall go to Philadelphia and be 
present at the Meade Memorial Services at the Academy of Music on Saturday evening, but 
not for the purpose of making an address, for 1 shall not have time to make preparations. 
General Augur, who has also been invited, will accompany me, and we shall leave Jersey City 
at 4.05 P. M. on Saturday, the 29th instant. It will give me pleasure to accept the hospitalities 
of the George G. Meade Post, No. i, G.A.R., for that occasion, and T shall stop at the St. George 
Hotel, corner of Broad and Walmu Streets. 1 am, sir, 

N'ery tndy and rcsijecthilly yours, 

UIXFl) S. HANC(JCR. 



Headquarters, L>cpartment uf West Point. United States Militarj- .Academy, 
West Poiiu, N. \". 

May /J, jSSo. 
Commander A. J. Sellers, George G. Meade Post, No. i. Grand Army Republic. 
No. 257 North Third Street, I'hiladelphia, Penna. 
Sir: — I regret that my official duties prevent my acceptance of your very eordial invitation 
to participate in the National Memorial Service on Decoration Day, the 29th instant, with the 
George G. Meade Post, No. i, Grand Army of the Republic, as contained in your letter of the 
i2th instant. It woidd afford me special |)leasure to meet with my old comrades under such 
auspicious circumstances, but I must ask you to communicate to them my regret that 1 have to 
be ab.sent on the occasion. I am Very truly yours, 

J. M. SCHOFIELD, 

Major-General U. S. A. 



(jovernor's Island, N. \. H., 
May 37, iSSo. 
Dear Majuk White;— It was not until yesterday that General Hancock and inyselt 
thought we coidd see our way clear for accepting your polite invitations for the " Memorial Ser- 
vice " on Saturday evening ne.vt. The General telegraphed yesterday that we woidd attend, and 
wouKl leave by the 4.05 train from New York. 

1 am Ncrv truly yours. 

C. C. AUGUR. 



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Union Club, Fifth Avenue and 21st Street, 
Satttrday, May rj, jSSo. 
Commander A. J. Sellers, Committee on Invitation. 

Dear Sik : — I have received and with great pleasure your kind invitation to participate in 
the Decoration ceremonies of the George G. Meade Post, G. A. R., and the Memorial Service 
on the 29th of May. I feel indeed grateful to you for your kind remembrance, for it is so much 
in harmony with what 1 feel is due to the memory of Pennsylvania's great soldier. I will come 
with pleasure, and will be glad to aid in any way the noble and just object you have in view. 

Very sincerely and respectfully, 

S. W. CRAWFORD, 

Brev. Maj. Gen'l, U.S.A. 



Governor's Island, 

May 2C), 1880. 
Major George Q. White, U. S. Army. 

Major ; — I am in receipt of your polite invitation to be present at the Memorial Services 
in honor of General Meade, and have to regret the impossibility of leaving New York to-day. 
Nothing could be more grateful to my feelings than to be present at services in memory of a 
great soldier and patriot. Sincerely yours, 

JOHN NEWTON, 

Hrev. Maj. Gen'l, U.S.A. 



\ New York, 

May 2b, tSSo. 
Major George Q. White, U. S. A., 524 Walnut Street, I'hiladeli)hia, Pa. 

My Df.ar Sik :— I have the honor to receive your invitation, dated the 24th inst., to attend 
the Meade Memorial Services on the evening of the 29th inst. I regret to say that my present 
engagements prevent my accepting. No one is at heart more in sympathy with the object of 
the meeting than T, and 1 feel glad that you have such splendid orators to do justice to the mem- 
ory of that true, noble man and general — George G. Meade. Yours truly, 

G. K. WARREN, U.S.A. 



Trenton, 

March is, /SSo. 

My Dear Sir : — Your very courteou> invitation to participate in the Memorial Service of 

May 29, under the direction of the Geo. G. Meade Post, G. A. R., has duly reached me. I 

regret that my engagements will render it out of my jiower to avail myself of your kindness. 

With my sincere thanks for your invitation, I am .Most truly yours, 

(;E0. J!. McCLELLAN. 
Col. A. J. Sellers, Commander. 



State of New Jersey, Headquarters National CJuard, Trenton. 
• ' May 27, 18S0. 

My Dear General : — I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of an invitation to 
attend the National Memorial Services, in aid of the Meade .Monument Fund, on Saturday 
evening, the 29th inst., and regret my inability to attend. 

Very respectfully, your ob'd't, 

G. MOTT. 
Gen'l H. H. Bingham, Phila. 



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Bingliaminn, \. ^'., 

May &, iH&O. 
Col. A. J. Sellers. 

My Dear Sir and Comrade ;— Your kind invitation to altt-nd " tht National Mcnii^rial 
Service at the .Academy of Musii;, Philadelphia, on Decoration Day," etc., was received here 
during my absence from home. I am compelled to decline for the reason that I have jironnscd 
to address my comrades at Nyack, N. Y., on Decoration Day, and the trip to Philadelphia 
would interfere with that arrangement. With pleasant recollections of the time when we scrveil 
in the field together, and thanking you for the cordial and flattering expressions in your letter. 
] arn \ery tnily and fraternally yours, 

[NO. C. KOHINSON. 



Drevoort House, New York, 
May lb, jSSo. 
Dear Sir :— Your favor of the i-th insi. reached my lodgings yesterday. The invitaticm to 
which you refer has not been received. However, I gather its purport from your letter now before 
me. I have promised to speak at Cypress Hill on Decoration Day, and I fear the acceptance of 
your kind invitation might interfere with my duty here. If I can arrange matters so as to be 
with you, I shall have great pleasure iu doing so. Sincerely yours, 

1). V. SICKLES. 
Col. A. J. Sellers, Phila. 

1829 G Street, Washington, D.C., 
J/ay 27, jSSo. 
Col. A. J. Sellers. 

My Dear Colonel :— 1 find the luuisual hot weather in my invalided condition has so 
prostrated my strength that .after all your kind arrangements and the warm welcome generally 
extended me as your guest, I shall be unable to undertake the fatigues of the long Memorial 
Services, which I not only regret, from the desire to show appropriate honor to our late Com- 
manding General, but as a deprivation of my personal renewal of old ties of friendship cemented 
on many a hard-fought field. Present my regrets with high regard and warm appreciation of 
your continued remembrance, Ever most sincerely yours, 

JAMES B. RICKETTS. 



1300 Locust Street, 

Messrs. White, Potter, K.eyser, Bingham and Sellers, Committee, ' "-^ ^'^' ' °- 

Gentlemen :— I have your kind communication, requesting the use of my name as one of 
the Vice-Presidents on the occasion of the National Memorial Services, on Saturday, ^K^y 29th, 
inst, I had hoped to be able to be with you on that occasion, but I find that I shall have to 
leave for the United Stales Military Academy at West Point in the afternoon of that day. Ywi 
have however, mv best wishes. With great respect. Sincerely yours, 

R. PATl KRSON. 



lirunswick, Maine, 

,.,„,, Feb. 28, 18S0. 

Commander A. J. Sellers, 

Dear Comrade :— I have not been able luitil now to give you anything like a positive 
answer. It seems to me now that I might be able to be with you and give a brief oration. I 
have had applications from half a dozen States, but my regard for General Meade and for my 
old comrades- thirteen Pennsylvania regiments being at one time and another in my command- 
is such that I am inclined to go to you, though it is rather a long journey for a busy man like 
me. Please let me know your wishes more fully. Yours sincerely, 



J. L. CHAMBERLAIN. 



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No. 465 CliiUon Avenue, Brooklyn, N. V., 
April 23, /SSo. 
My Dear Sir :— Your kind invitation to me to join in the ceremonies on May 29 has been 
received, for which please accept my thanks. 1 shall take pleasure in accepting it, unless pre- 
vented by something now unforeseen. Yours truly, 

H. W. SI.OCUM. 
Col. A. I. Sellers. 



' )ffice of the United States Attorney, New York. 
April JO, /SSo. 
Mv Dear C<jmkauh: — Yours of yesterday received Let me cordially thank your Post, 
yourself and my valued friend, Gen. Bingham, for your kind invitation. I accept with sad 
pleasure. It is a privilege to share in paying honors to the memory of Gen. Meade. 

faithfully yours, 
A. J. Sellers, Commander, elc, Philadelphia. STEWART L. W(JUDF(JkD. 



Jersey City, N. J. 
Col. A. J. Sellers, ( ;co. ( ;. Meade I'ost, Philadelphia, Pa. -''/«;' J, fSSo. 

I am sorry to be compelled to decline your kind invitation. I am promised to speak at 
Friendship, N. J. 

J. KILPATKICK. 



OlVice of the .Mayor of the City of Philadelphia, 
A. J. Sellers. Commander I'ost i. (; A. K. -'■'"->' ^, 'SSo. 

Dear Sjk :-— Your communication of 2yth ult., relative to " a Marching Salute in connection 
with the Councils of the City of Philadelphia having luider escort several distingui.shed soldiers 
on the morning of Decoration Day," wa.s received. It affords me pleasure to accept your cour- 
tesy, and will be on the steps of the Mayor's Office, or any other place you may pleased to 
designate, at the hour specified. I am, Very respectfully, 

\VM. S. STOKLRV, 

Mayor. 



Select Coiuicil, Philadelphia. 
A. J. Sellers, Commander Geo. G. Me.ade Post No. i, G. A. R. -^^"J' '^> '^So. 

Dear Sir ; — 1 am directed by Select Council to notify you of their acceptance of the 
" Marching Salute," tendered by your Post on the morning of Decoration Day, May 29, 1880. 

Respeclfully, 

JOSEPH H. PAIST, 

Clerk of Select Council. 



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Allen, R. W. P. 
Arthur, William. 
Atkinson, C. V. 
Ashton, Thomas J . 
Arbuckle, Samui;! N\'. 
Alwater, Howell. 
Arbuckle, Henrj' J. 
Abel, William W. 
Atlee, Charles L. 

Appel, A. M. 

Albright, Joseph S. 

Allman, Eugene. 

Atlee, W. L., M.D. 

Allen, William W. 

Ackley, Shreve. 

Abel, Charles A. 

Aiidenried, James E. 



Bingham, Henry H. 
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tButler, John M. 
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Beale, Colin M. 
tBurk, William B. 
Bell, William 
Blakey, William ¥. 
Beale, Charles E. 
Bond, Joseph. 

Bird, William C. 

Bridger, Paul. 

Boos, Lewis J. 

Black, Robert. 

Bonfield, Henry F. 

Bartley, William. 

Brooks, Henry C. 

Bennett, James M. 

Backus, William A. 

Blair, Henry C. 

Bell, Samuel. 

Benson, R. Dale. 

Benson, Edwin X. 

Barnes, Paul H. 
Burkhart, Theodore. 
Brown, Henry A. B. 



Benson, Frank C. 
Butcher, Henry C. 
Birckenhauer, Adolf. 
Brown, Thomas. 
Boyer, Charles. 
Bird, John F. 
Bowman, Wendell P. 



Collins, James, .M.D. 
Clymer, James 1.. 
Clarke, James F. 
Cassidy, James F. 
Cooper, Thomas F. (•. 
Colbourn, William K. 
Connolly, John. 
Chambers, James. 
Cook, Arthur B. 
Conrad, J. Fletcher. 
Cave, Bowen M . 
Cooper, William G. 
Colton, John H. 

Cochran, James B. 
■ Co.x, William. 

Chamberlain, Harry L. 

Carpenter, Enilen N. 

Carr, Charles W. 

Culin, John. 

Co.ve, Whitwell W. 



Diehl, James B. 
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Davis, John E. 
Dunsford, William D. 
Dobleman, John C. 
*Duncan, George S. 

Durang, John T. 

Dally, (ieorge \N'. 

Duffield, J. Davis. 

Davis, W.W.H. 

Devlin, Charles P. 

Dillon, Thomas P. 

*Dinan, Joseph P. 

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Etting, Charles E. 
Enoch, Richard. 
Ebner, Jacob. 
Edwards, E. J. 
Evans, Horace. 
Ellis, Henry C. 
Elliot, Joseph P. 
Earle, Edgar \V. 



Feltus, Roswell G. 
Ford, Robert H. 
Frazer, C. Clayton. 
Foley, David F. 
Folger, Charles F. 
Foering, John O. 
Fair, Thomas. 
Fritz, Horace. 



Huey, Samuel B. 
Howser, Joseph. 
Hewitt, Richard. 
Hamersley, Lewis R. 
Hoffliger, Philip J. 
Harris, Charles D. 
Hale, Charles A. 
Harwood, Lilburn, Jr. 
Holman, J. H. 
Huey, Pennock. 
Hammer, John L 
Hartlevan, Aug, V., D.D.S. 
Howard, Daniel W. • 
Hager, I. M. 
Howard, William H. 
Hamberg, Ansel. 
Hofman, J William. 
Hough, Horace B. 
Haurj', Augustus. 
Haeseler, Albert S. 
Harkncss, Samuel, Jr. 
Harvey, (jeorge F., M.D. 
Houghton, Charles \V., M.D. 
Hayes, John W. 
Holt, Frederick V. 
Heath, Charles H. 
Huffinglon, Thomas E. 



*Geary, John W. 
Goodman, H. Earnest, M.D. 
*Geer, Wilbur F. 
Groves, John H., M.D. 
Grant, Ulysses S. 
Grugan, Florence W. 
Gimber, Harry W. 
Gardiner, John H. 
Gibson, Charles H . 
Goodwin, W. Wallace. 
Cilading, Frank. 
Given, William H. 
Greene, Arthur M. 
Gentner, E. F. 
Golden, M. A. 
Garver, Araos L. 
Gordon, David. 
Garvin, John W. 



Harri'^on, William H. 
*Heslet, James. 
tHagy, William A. 
Heaton, Charles F. 
Hutchinson, S. P. 
Hewes, Harry W. 



James, Francis M. 
Jacobus, Peter H. 
Jenkins, Isaac. 
Johnston, Albert C. 
Jones, Alfred, M.D. 
Jenks, John Story. 
Jacoby, James H. 



is: 

* Kelly, George W. 
Knight, Charles C. 
Kise, John D. 
Kent, Samuel R. 
Knight, T. Morris. 
Kennedy, Hugh. 
Kjieass, Christian. 
Kcyser, P. D., M.D. 
Keen, Henry. 
Ker, William W. 
Krider, P. N. 
Kcyser, James D. 
Keen, Charles^W. 
Kohlas, Conrad. 



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*Lambdiii, Harrison. 
Loyd, William H. 
Lewis, Samuel N. 
Lambrecht, William 
Loud, E. de C. 
Leidig, Theodore. 
Linnard, James M. 
Lazarus, Aaron. 
Lansing, H. S. 
tLuckenback, John S. 
Levi, Henry. 
Lister, Charles C. 
Laws, James A. 
Lea, J. Tatnall. 
Ledyard, William W. 
Ladner. William F. 



McHridc, R,)beiJt. 
Morrow, James S. 
Miles, K. H. 
Mass, Edmund A. 
Morgan, C. E., Jr. 



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Nelson. K.ilwin, 
Nagle, William H. 
Nevin, Edwin H . J] 
Nichols, Daniel F. 



Owen, FVancis B. 
O'Neill, James. 



M'lMichacl, Clayton. 
Maris, Archer. 
Maize, Elbridge (j. 
tMuUikin, James R. 
M'Ewen, William G. 
M'Candless, William. 
Mayer, William. 
Mann, William H. 
Megee, George, Jr. 
Munder, Charles. 
M'llvaine, Charles. 
M'Fadden, James, M.U. 
Miller, William H. 
Miller, Samuel D. 
M'Carthy, Jeremiah. 
M'Gonigle, William. 
M'Cann, James, Jr. 
M'Elroy, Joseph R. 
MacNeal, Charles 1!. 
M'Calla, Theodore H. 

M'Carter, Richard F., Jr. 

Macferran, William K. 

Moran, Thomas M. 

M' Knight, Richard W. 

^L^cpherson, William J. 

MXean, H. D.. M.D. 

M'Cormack, John. 

Marquet, H. ^L 

Moore, Lewis W. 

Moore, L. E. C. 

Matthews, E. W. 

Middletr.n, (labriel. 

Mitchell, John H. 

Mann, John E. 



|Pennington, E., Jr. 
Prevost, Charles M. 
Potter, Harry C. 
Pettit, Silas W. 
Paul, George E. 
Prior, William. 
Pritchard, John W. 
Pierie, (ieorge G. 
Perkins, Samuel C. 
Pfeiffer, Louis E. 
Paschall, Robert. 
Parker, William P. 
Pauley, James L. 
Price, Isaac C. 
Price, Isaiah. 
Patterson, C. Stuart. 
Parris, Edward K. 



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Robbins,H.A.,NLD.,D.D.S. 
Rosengarten, Joseph G. 
Rorer, Thomas J. 
Ruth, Charles 
Reed, Alexander. 
Ranck, Isaac VV. 
Richards, ISenjamin W. 
Runkle, William Si. 
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Schwarz, Jules. 
Smith. Charles Ross. 
JSloan, Charles B. 
Strobel, Joseph. 
Sweisfort, William \V. 
Sellers, Alfred J. 
Simpson, William J. 
Spooner, William B. 
*Stein, Jacob. 
Smith, ^V^ Russell 
Super, Albert. 
Starr, James. 
Scott. John. 
Shurtz, E. W. 
Sherer, Jacob W. 
Simmons, Charles F. 
Stevenson, John A. 
Stewart, Robert. 
Scott, Waller. 
Stokes, Ellis. 
Seipe, David Z. 
Swoyer, Jacob K. 
Shantz, B. F. 
Schell, Henry S.. M.U. 
Steiner, Joseph. 
Shallcross, John- 
Stewart, James T. 
Smith, George W. 
Stevenson, George. 
Sentz, Carl H. 
Schurch, William H. 
Stauffer, Theodore H. 
Snyder, William H. 
Stokes, Joseph F. 
Smith, 'I'homas Kilby 
Stolze, Washingtiin. 
Stellwagen,T. C, M.l>.. L>"- 



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'Tucker, Campbell. 
Tiedcmann, Frederick. 
Tyler, Lynford I). C. 
Tucker, William W. 

Tremain, Dorr 1'. 
Trumbull, Rev. II. Clay. 

Tibbals, Halsey J. 

lodd, Wallace B. 

Taylor, Albert W. 



Taber, William H. 
Townsend, Heni-y L. 



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Vezin, Alfred. 
Vezin. Henry A. 
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Vogdcs, W. Wayne. 

Van H.rnk, William. 

Ward, Jos. R.C.. !>.L>.S. 
Wallace, W. H. H 
tWorlhington, Samuel 
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Ward, William H. F. 
Walter. George H. 
White, George y. 
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West, Charles W. 
Wallace, William W. 
Weaver, David P. 
Wood, George P. 
Ward, John W., Jr 
Whitaker, Edward B. 

Widdis, Cornelius C. 

West, George W. 

Wolfe, Jacob P. 

Williams. PryceC. 

Whittier, A.J. 

Wharton, Robert S., M D. 

Weierback, H. H. 

Wilson, James C. 

Wray, James C. 

Wiedersheim, Theodore E. 

Worrall, Washington M. 



\oung, Robert J. 
Young, Albert l'. 
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